Tide Turns Case 2
Brave Advocates of Liberty
Ending America’s version of slavery with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment are major signals to the world, America truly understood the principles of freedom.
Rome’s citizens congratulated Lincoln on his reelection by sending him an inscribed slab from the “Servius Tullius Wall,” dedicated to the “brave advocates of liberty!” Lincoln received the stone before his assassination. The ancient Romans built the fortification around the city in the 4th Century BCE, and it becomes a symbol of their independence and freedom. The stone above is part of what is ensconced in the face of Lincoln’s Tomb.
In 1688 German settlers protested slavery in Philadelphia. Their antislavery zeal continues into the 19th century, and this is why German immigrants join the Anti-Slavery Movement and Republican Party. They too celebrated the end of slavery, seen in the above German translation of the Emancipation Proclamation, printed in 1863.