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 1829
... Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri—it has been easy to lampoon the Proclamation as a puff of political air. But laws are not the less laws merely because circumstances render them inoperative at a given time or place. I should ...
... Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri—it has been easy to lampoon the Proclamation as a puff of political air. But laws are not the less laws merely because circumstances render them inoperative at a given time or place. I should ...
Page 1840
... Delaware Unionist , " but we also look upon freedom possessed by a negro , except in a very few cases , as a greater curse . " And , as in the South , even antislavery opinions sat alongside an undercurrent of white apprehension that ...
... Delaware Unionist , " but we also look upon freedom possessed by a negro , except in a very few cases , as a greater curse . " And , as in the South , even antislavery opinions sat alongside an undercurrent of white apprehension that ...
Page 1859
... 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 secessionist governor and the ...
... 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 secessionist governor and the ...
Page 1862
... Delaware ; and Trusten Polk and Waldo Johnson of Missouri ; and in the House , Charles Wickliffe , Robert Mallory , and John J. Crittenden of Kentucky ( Crittenden had accepted reelection in 1860 , but to the House rather than to the ...
... Delaware ; and Trusten Polk and Waldo Johnson of Missouri ; and in the House , Charles Wickliffe , Robert Mallory , and John J. Crittenden of Kentucky ( Crittenden had accepted reelection in 1860 , but to the House rather than to the ...
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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 |
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