{"id":14324,"date":"2022-06-16T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=14324"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:07:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T17:07:09","slug":"george-s-boutwell-the-emancipation-proclamation","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/event\/george-s-boutwell-the-emancipation-proclamation\/","title":{"rendered":"George S. Boutwell &#038; the Emancipation Proclamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Likely you know that <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/communities\/groton\/\">Groton<\/a>&#8216;s George Boutwell was the twentieth Governor of Massachusetts. But did you know that while serving as Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Commissioner of Internal Revenue, he was also the president\u2019s close political ally and confidante?\u00a0 His, the voice that made Lincoln\u2019s Emancipation Proclamation a reality by stating publicly (after the Battle of Antietam in 1862) what the president for political reasons couldn\u2019t yet say: that the Civil War would not be won until we &#8220;take slavery by the throat and destroy it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, as writer, historian, and science policy specialist <a title=\"https:\/\/grotonhistoricalsociety.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=375d4201050523f0d613994f1&amp;id=8c3a360226&amp;e=ac21b5013c\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/grotonhistoricalsociety.us7.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=375d4201050523f0d613994f1&amp;id=8c3a360226&amp;e=ac21b5013c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Boutwell<\/a> puts it, \u201cFor seven decades, George Boutwell sought to &#8220;redeem America&#8217;s promise&#8221; through racial equality, economic equity, and the humane use of American power abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Join Jeffrey for his talk \u201cGeorge Boutwell and the Emancipation Proclamation: Saying What Lincoln Couldn\u2019t Say\u201d on Sunday, June 19, at 2 pm at the Groton Center, 163 West Main Street, Groton.\u00a0 This free presentation in celebration of the Juneteenth holiday and the abolition of slavery is made possible by the Commissioners of Trust Funds. All are invited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Likely you know that Groton&#8216;s George Boutwell was the twentieth Governor of Massachusetts. But did you know that while serving as Abraham Lincoln\u2019s Commissioner of Internal Revenue, he was also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14325,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tag":[128],"tribe_events_cat":[101],"class_list":["post-14324","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-free","tribe_events_cat-talks","cat_talks"],"acf":{"explore_list_featured_select":"2","select_experience":[1866],"select_topic":[1878],"select_theme":[1888],"select_location":[1935,1910],"select_audience":[1964,1966],"descriptor":"Things to Do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15220,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14324\/revisions\/15220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}