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 1859
... Border- Missouri , Kentucky , and Delaware , in addition to Maryland — had not . But through the month of April it had been touch and go in the Maryland legislature , while in Missouri a miniature civil war had broken out between the ...
... Border- Missouri , Kentucky , and Delaware , in addition to Maryland — had not . But through the month of April it had been touch and go in the Maryland legislature , while in Missouri a miniature civil war had broken out between the ...
Page 1860
... 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 November elections and the withdrawal of the seceding South's ...
... 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 November elections and the withdrawal of the seceding South's ...
Page 1861
... Border state Unionists in Congress, the Democrats relentlessly prophesied that any move to incorporate emancipation into the war would flood the Northern labor market with cheap black labor and crowd Northern farmhands and industrial ...
... Border state Unionists in Congress, the Democrats relentlessly prophesied that any move to incorporate emancipation into the war would flood the Northern labor market with cheap black labor and crowd Northern farmhands and industrial ...
Page 1862
... Border staters , and the Border state delegations in both House and Senate were ready to play on that fear . The next day , Lincoln sent a special message to Congress on the outbreak of the war , describing his actions since April in ...
... Border staters , and the Border state delegations in both House and Senate were ready to play on that fear . The next day , Lincoln sent a special message to Congress on the outbreak of the war , describing his actions since April in ...
Page 1864
... Border states were more loyal to the Union than people like Vallandigham , who a week before had wanted to blame the war on the Radicals . However , behind the protest of loyalty , the real point of Crittenden's resolution was to remind ...
... Border states were more loyal to the Union than people like Vallandigham , who a week before had wanted to blame the war on the Radicals . However , behind the protest of loyalty , the real point of Crittenden's resolution was to remind ...
Contents
1822 | |
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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