Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in AmericaOne of the nation's foremost Lincoln scholars offers an authoritative consideration of the document that represents the most far-reaching accomplishment of our greatest president. No single official paper in American history changed the lives of as many Americans as Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no American document has been held up to greater suspicion. Its bland and lawyerlike language is unfavorably compared to the soaring eloquence of the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural; its effectiveness in freeing the slaves has been dismissed as a legal illusion. And for some African-Americans the Proclamation raises doubts about Lincoln himself. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation dispels the myths and mistakes surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation and skillfully reconstructs how America's greatest president wrote the greatest American proclamation of freedom. |
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... African - American Studies Department at Columbia , Forty Acres and a Mule : The Case for Black Reparations ( November 9 , 2002 ) and scheduled to appear in Souls : A Critical Journal of Black Politics , Culture and Society ; and ...
... African - American Studies Department at Columbia , Forty Acres and a Mule : The Case for Black Reparations ( November 9 , 2002 ) and scheduled to appear in Souls : A Critical Journal of Black Politics , Culture and Society ; and ...
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The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo. understood emancipation not as the satisfaction of a “spirit” overriding the ... African-American freedom by the time of the Emancipation Proclamation less than two years later. Or else that ...
The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo. understood emancipation not as the satisfaction of a “spirit” overriding the ... African-American freedom by the time of the Emancipation Proclamation less than two years later. Or else that ...
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... American anxieties about race and reconciliation at the beginning of the twenty - first century . It would be special pleading to claim that Lincoln was in the end the most perfect friend black Americans have ever had . But it would ...
... American anxieties about race and reconciliation at the beginning of the twenty - first century . It would be special pleading to claim that Lincoln was in the end the most perfect friend black Americans have ever had . But it would ...
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... black slavery in the American Union to the fifteen states where it was then legal. Although Lincoln repeated that he was interested only in preventing the further spread of slavery into the federally administered territories of the West ...
... black slavery in the American Union to the fifteen states where it was then legal. Although Lincoln repeated that he was interested only in preventing the further spread of slavery into the federally administered territories of the West ...
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The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo. labor , for his whole life . " But he was not enough moved by American slavery's singular injustice to its African captives to call for their immediate emancipation . Lincoln was serving his ...
The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo. labor , for his whole life . " But he was not enough moved by American slavery's singular injustice to its African captives to call for their immediate emancipation . Lincoln was serving his ...
Contents
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The President will Rise | 8 |
Three | 17 |
An Instrument in Gods Hands | 9 |
The Mighty | 73 |
Five | 27 |
Fame Takes him by the Hand | 71 |
Postscript | 1849 |
Notes | |
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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo Limited preview - 2004 |
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