GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED! (1963) by Jerome Moross and Edward Eager MANICPATION When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he did so independently, without Congressional approval, as a wartime measure within his authority as Commander in Chief. He knew that his efforts to abolish slavery would not survive the war without the Congress behind him. If the Proclamation was to represent a lasting milestone, the country had to have the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments. In their musical history of the Civil War, GENTLEMEN, BE SEATED!, completed in 1956 and at last produced by New York City Opera in 1963, Jerome Moross and Edward Eager’s ‘Mancipation tells us that with all of Lincoln’s efforts, true universal freedom for every American had still not been realized even nearly 100 years after the South surrendered!
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