Docsteach: Letter to President Abraham Lincoln From Annie Davis

Students will study a letter from Annie Davis, a woman who was enslaved in Maryland and wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War to find out if 'we are free.' The students will decide if she received her freedom from any of three documents: a proposed amendment from 1861 that would have prevented legislation interfering with states' rights to regulate slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation, or the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The students must analyze each document to find out if and when Annie was freed.