Robert brown elliott biography of abraham

  • It is believed that Elliott was born in England on August 11, 1842, but he claimed to have been born in Boston and educated in England.
  • Robert Brown Elliott (1842–1884) was born in Liverpool, England, and educated at Eton College, a prestigious boarding school, graduating in 1859.
  • Summary: South Carolina representative Robert B. Elliott's famous speech in favor of the Civil Rights Act, delivered in the House of Representatives on January.

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    Historical Overview

    Emancipation Proclamation– This online exhibit, artighet of Library of Congress’s American Memory Project, details the historical significance of the Emancipation Proclamation. The exhibit fryst vatten based on excerpts from the Abraham Lincoln Papers and includes the digitization of the Emancipation’s original drafts (click “Gallery”).

    Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877– This website indexes numerous collection guides pertaining to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Within, you can find pertinent documents, online exhibitions, timelines, non-governmental exhibits, bibliographies, and suggested readings for youth.

    African American Odyssey: Reconstruction and It’s Aftermath– This exhibit details important aspects of the Reconstruction era. Text and images reflect experiences of the time. (Note: click on the images to view them in their entirety)

    Prologue Magazine (Summer 1997, Vol. 29, No.2)- Several research-based articles within this magazine focus upon the Civil

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    The Long Road Toward Civil Rights

    Talking with Peter Myers, editor of Race and Civil Rights

    This month we released a new volume in our Core Document Collection, Race and Civil Rights, edited by Peter C. Myers. The volume covers the long struggle to secure legal, political and social equality for black and white citizens, a struggle that began the moment slavery was abolished. As Myers writes, the documents he selected address the question of “whether and how” black and white Americans can “come to coexist and thrive as fellow citizens.”

    Myers is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, where he teaches political philosophy, American political thought, and Constitutional law. As a visiting professor in the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, Myers has taught courses on Race and Equality, the Civil Rights Era, Tocqueville, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass. In 2008 he published Frederick Do

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    The Shackle Broken by the Genius of Freedom

    Date
    1874
    Artist
    Edward Sachse & Co., active 1851 - 1874?
    Sitter
    Robert Brown Elliott, 11 Aug 1842 - 9 Aug 1884
    Exhibition Label
    Born Liverpool, England
    An eloquent champion for universal civil rights, Robert Brown Elliott was one of the first African Americans elected to represent South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives (1871–73; 1873–75). On January 6, 1874, Elliott delivered a stirring defense of Senator Charles Sumner’s Civil Rights Bill in the face of opposition from Georgia Congressman Alexander Stephens, the Confederacy’s former vice-president.
    Elliott’s “great speech” is memorialized in the central vignette of this lithograph as well as in the quotes from the address that appear throughout the print. Companion images of Abraham Lincoln, flourishing the Emancipation Proclamation, and Senator Sumner, holding a copy of his Civil Rights Bill, provide context for Elliott’s speech, as do scenes re
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