half slave half free
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Half Slaveand
Half FreeBy Russel Freedman
Word Reading
abolish
abolition
abolitioni
st
efforts
factions
slaves
Word Reading
manacled
suppress
ed
embattle
d
confined
Word Reading
Abraham Lincoln hoped to
abolish the buying and selling
of slaves.
Word Reading
Slave traders often suppressed
slaves by keeping them
manacled and confined.
Word Reading
Fearing a rise in the abolition movement,
the embattled southern states decided to
leave the Union.
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African-Americans
were enslaved until
the middle 1800s.
They had no rights
and were forced to
work long, hard
hours.
Context Clues
Word Structure
Apposition
enslaved en + slave
enslaved – what happens to someone who is held against their will and forced to work
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Abraham Lincoln was
important to the
emancipation, or
declaration of
freedom, of African
American.
Context Clues
Word Structure
Apposition
Emancipation – the act of
freeing someone
from slavery
Proclamation of Emancipation, 1862
Emancipation – the act of freeing someone from slavery
By torchlight, a Union soldier reads the Emancipation Proclamation to a room of slaves and their children.
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The North and the
South were unable to
reach a compromise
on slavery. Neither
side would agree to
give a little on the
issue.
Context Clues
Word Structure
Apposition
compromise – when an argument is ended because each side gives up something
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Many southern states
seceded from the United
States when Lincoln was
elected president. The
states left the Union
because they feared
Lincoln would outlaw
slavery.
Context Clues
Word Structure
Apposition
secede – disconnected from something, or left, as when the southern states seceded from the Union
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Abolitionists
wanted to prohibit,
or forbid, slavery.
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Word Structure
Apposition
prohibit– to forbid by law or by an order
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The country was so
divided over the issue of
slavery that some
brothers were rivals
during the Civil War;
they fought on opposite
sides.
Context Clues
Word Structure
Apposition
rivals – individuals or groups competing against each other
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