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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... Civil War - era history . " -Kirkus Reviews " Most if not all of the preceding works [ on the Emancipation Proclamation ] will now pale with the publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation , by this highly respected Lincoln ...
... Civil War - era history . " -Kirkus Reviews " Most if not all of the preceding works [ on the Emancipation Proclamation ] will now pale with the publication of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation , by this highly respected Lincoln ...
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... Civil War (www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman) and the mammoth resources contained in the Making of America websites maintained by Cornell University and the University of Michigan (www.cdl.library.edu/cgi) ...
... Civil War (www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman) and the mammoth resources contained in the Making of America websites maintained by Cornell University and the University of Michigan (www.cdl.library.edu/cgi) ...
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... 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 ( September 21 , 2002 ) ...
... 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 ( September 21 , 2002 ) ...
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... Civil War era, and especially those of Washington: John W. Forney's Morning Chronicle, Simon Hanscom's National Republican, the Evening Star, and the venerable National Intelligencer. Many of these survive only in microform versions in ...
... Civil War era, and especially those of Washington: John W. Forney's Morning Chronicle, Simon Hanscom's National Republican, the Evening Star, and the venerable National Intelligencer. Many of these survive only in microform versions in ...
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... Civil War would be “ done consistently with the prudence ... which ought always to regulate the public service " and without allowing the war to degenerate “ into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle . " 5 It is this ...
... Civil War would be “ done consistently with the prudence ... which ought always to regulate the public service " and without allowing the war to degenerate “ into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle . " 5 It is this ...
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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