WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830), founder of the Bavarian Illuminati

The Illuminati (plural of Latin illuminatus, "enlightened") is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious. Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1, 1776. The society's goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power. "The order of the day," they wrote in their general statutes, "is to put an end to the machinations of the purveyors of injustice, to control them without dominating them." The Illuminati—along with Freemasonry and other secret societies—were outlawed through edict, by the Bavarian ruler, Charles Theodore, with the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church, in 1784, 1785, 1787 and 1790.   In the several years following, the group was vilified by conservative and religious critics who claimed that they continued underground and were responsible for the French Revolution.  

On September 22, 1862 , just day after the federal army stopped a Confederate advance at the battle of Antietam,Lincoln announced his plans to order the freeing of Southern slaves unless the Southern states returned to the Union.…With no response from the South. Lincoln announced his Emancipation Proclamation on January 1,1863.  He proclaimed freedom for all slaves in the Rebel-held territory.  t was purely a political act, since obviously he had no authority in those areas.  But it brought the issue of slavery to the forefront of the conflict.