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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... Charles Eberstadt's Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ; to Dr. H. Dean Trulear for drawing my attention to George D. Kelsey's Emancipation Day address , " Negro Americans , What Now ? " in 1940 ; and to my nephew , Justin Hotchkiss of ...
... Charles Eberstadt's Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ; to Dr. H. Dean Trulear for drawing my attention to George D. Kelsey's Emancipation Day address , " Negro Americans , What Now ? " in 1940 ; and to my nephew , Justin Hotchkiss of ...
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... emancipation proclamations attempted by John Charles Frémont and David Hunter. Lincoln ignored the Confiscation Acts, showed no interest in Butler's “contraband” theory, and actually revoked the martial-law proclamations —not.
... emancipation proclamations attempted by John Charles Frémont and David Hunter. Lincoln ignored the Confiscation Acts, showed no interest in Butler's “contraband” theory, and actually revoked the martial-law proclamations —not.
Page 1838
... , Sarah and Angelina Grimke , Theodore Dwight Weld , Charles Grandison Finney — had acquired with " quack economics , quack politics , quack law , quack learning " and an unrelenting absolutism that stooped to ask for no sympathy that.
... , Sarah and Angelina Grimke , Theodore Dwight Weld , Charles Grandison Finney — had acquired with " quack economics , quack politics , quack law , quack learning " and an unrelenting absolutism that stooped to ask for no sympathy that.
Page 1839
... Charles Grandison Finney ) was warned by Democratic state leader David Tod that any attempt by Lincoln and the Republicans to use the secession crisis as an excuse to emancipate slaves " would find the two hundred thousand Ohio ...
... Charles Grandison Finney ) was warned by Democratic state leader David Tod that any attempt by Lincoln and the Republicans to use the secession crisis as an excuse to emancipate slaves " would find the two hundred thousand Ohio ...
Page 1840
... Charles Sumner " into a little Massachusetts of their own . " William O. Stoddard , who came to work for the Lincoln White House after Lincoln's inauguration , remembered the capital “ as ' secesh ' to the backbone " and that almost ...
... Charles Sumner " into a little Massachusetts of their own . " William O. Stoddard , who came to work for the Lincoln White House after Lincoln's inauguration , remembered the capital “ as ' secesh ' to the backbone " and that almost ...
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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