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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Page 1812
... hoping for the best, or softly whisper regrets, lest it should rouse opposition, or encounter obloquy? JOSEPH STORY, Address to the Harvard Alumni Society, August 23, 1842 FOR JOHN AND MARY ANN LEWIS Acknowledgments IT HARDLY SEEMS.
... hoping for the best, or softly whisper regrets, lest it should rouse opposition, or encounter obloquy? JOSEPH STORY, Address to the Harvard Alumni Society, August 23, 1842 FOR JOHN AND MARY ANN LEWIS Acknowledgments IT HARDLY SEEMS.
Page 1817
... August , 1863 , " in Civil War History ( December 2002 ) • " Understanding Emancipation : Lincoln's Proclamation and the End of Slavery in America , " versions of which were presented to the annual Lincoln Symposium at Knox College ...
... August , 1863 , " in Civil War History ( December 2002 ) • " Understanding Emancipation : Lincoln's Proclamation and the End of Slavery in America , " versions of which were presented to the annual Lincoln Symposium at Knox College ...
Page 1826
... August 1861 and July 1862), the “contraband” theory confected by the ingenious Benjamin Butler, and the two martial-law emancipation proclamations attempted by John Charles Frémont and David Hunter. Lincoln ignored the Confiscation Acts ...
... August 1861 and July 1862), the “contraband” theory confected by the ingenious Benjamin Butler, and the two martial-law emancipation proclamations attempted by John Charles Frémont and David Hunter. Lincoln ignored the Confiscation Acts ...
Page 1842
... August Belmont years later that “ I never favored interference by Congress with slavery in the states ” and had hoped only " to bring about a union of all Democrats on the ground of the limitation of slavery to the States in which it ...
... August Belmont years later that “ I never favored interference by Congress with slavery in the states ” and had hoped only " to bring about a union of all Democrats on the ground of the limitation of slavery to the States in which it ...
Page 1860
... August , gave him “ more trouble than rebels . " 27 Some of the Border states ' touchiness grew out of the way the Thirty - seventh Congress was organized when it came together in special session on July 4 , 1861 . Thanks to the ...
... August , gave him “ more trouble than rebels . " 27 Some of the Border states ' touchiness grew out of the way the Thirty - seventh Congress was organized when it came together in special session on July 4 , 1861 . Thanks to the ...
Contents
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1834 | |
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 |
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo Limited preview - 2005 |
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