Draft of President Lincoln Proclamation Paper.

1. What type of document is this? (Ex. Newspaper, telegram, map, letter, memorandum, congressional record)
This document constitutes a draft of President Lincoln proclamation that helped free slaves in the Southern States. Draft of President Lincoln Proclamation Paper.
2. For what audience was the document written?
The document is meant for both the Blacks and White audience. While addressing the
black audience, Booker T urges them to engage in mechanics, agriculture, domestic service,
commerce and other professions in order to prosper. On the other hand, Booker T. tells the White
audience to treat the black population with dignity and respect since they are the people that can
purchase their surplus land and run their factories. Draft of President Lincoln Proclamation Paper.
3. What do you find interesting or important about this document?
This document contains two important aspects. First, the history of this period proves that
the Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most significant elements of the Civil War. It is
seen as a document that led to the freeing of slaves. However, this is not what the draft contains.
The draft is more of conveying information that any person, state or nation that engages with the
Confederate State is involved in treason and rebellion. For countries such as France and England,
this would mean that any ally of the Confederate States would become the Union’s enemy leading to economic and political consequences. Draft of President Lincoln Proclamation Paper.

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4. Is there a particular phrase or section that you find particularly meaningful or surprising?
The substitution of the word adoption with abolishment is one of the interesting elements
in this document. If the document could retain the use of the word adoption, then the meaning of
the entire document would have changed. In relation to the content, it is intriguing to note that
those who oppose the Union are considered rebellious. The terming of Confederate States as
rebellious undercuts any authority these states might possess.
5. What does this document tell you about life in this culture at the time it was written?
This document underlines the primary concern of the Union government during this
period. At this time, it is easy to point out that slavery was central in the nation. The document
underscores two primary Civil War conflicts – slavery and state rights.

With the rise of legalized racial segregation, African-American leader Booker T.
Washington made a famous speech at the Atlanta Exposition espousing a policy
of self-help and accommodation to white society.
. . . Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we
began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature
was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump
speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden. Draft of President Lincoln Proclamation Paper.
A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the
unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from
the friendly vessel at once came back, "Cast down your bucket where you are." . . . The
captain of the distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it
came up full of fresh, sparkling water. . . . To those of my race who underestimate the
importance of cultivating friendly relations with the southern white man, who is their
next-door neighbor, I would say: "Cast down your bucket where you are" – cast it down
in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded. Draft of President Lincoln Proclamation Paper.
Cast it down in agriculture, mechanics, in commerce, in domestic service, and in the
professions. . . . Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we
may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands,
and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and
glorify common labour, and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life. . . . Draft of President Lincoln Proclamation Paper.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in
writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.
To those of the white race who look to the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange
tongue and habits for the prosperity of the South, were I permitted I would repeat what I
say to my own race, "Cast down your bucket where you are." Cast it down among the
eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know, whose fidelity and love you have
tested in days when to have proved treacherous meant the ruin of your firesides. Cast
down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled
your fields, cleared your forests, built your railroads and cities, and brought forth
treasures from the bowels of the earth. . . . Casting down your bucket among my people . Draft of President Lincoln Proclamation Paper.

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. . you will find that they will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in
your fields, and run your factories. While doing this, you can be sure in the future, as in
the past, that you and your families will be surrounded by the most patient, faithful,
law-abiding, and un-resentful people that the world has seen. . . . In all things that are
purely social we can be as separate as the finders, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. .. .
The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is
the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house. Draft of President Lincoln Proclamation Paper.