Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting

Edward Hopper Nighthawks painting
Frederic Edwin Church Sunset painting
compensated　emancipation of the slaves. The slaves were property they　were on the tax books along with horses and cats, the valuation　of each slave written next to his name in the tax assessors　books. And failing to get action on compensated emancipation.　he took the only other course. As a chief executive having more　powers, he issued the paper by which he declared the slaves to　be free, under military necessity In the end. nearly four billion　dollars worth of property was taken away from those who were　legal owners of it. Property confiscated, wiped out as by tire　and turned to ashes. At his instigation and executive direction, chattel property recognized in law books for three hundred years was expropriated, seized without payment.And how did Lincoln say he would like to be remembered? Something