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 1828
... Henry Buckle , Karl Marx , Adolphe Quetelet , Pierre Laplace - thought that progress , improvement , and invention were written into the script of human affairs beyond the power of human effacement . And that meant , from Lincoln's ...
... Henry Buckle , Karl Marx , Adolphe Quetelet , Pierre Laplace - thought that progress , improvement , and invention were written into the script of human affairs beyond the power of human effacement . And that meant , from Lincoln's ...
Page 1837
... Henry L. Benning , “ very soon a war between the whites and the blacks will spontaneously break out everywhere . " The kind of apocalypse Benning prophesied touched every racial and sexual anxiety of the white South . The race war would ...
... Henry L. Benning , “ very soon a war between the whites and the blacks will spontaneously break out everywhere . " The kind of apocalypse Benning prophesied touched every racial and sexual anxiety of the white South . The race war would ...
Page 1842
... Henry Seward , whom Lincoln intended to nominate as secretary of state , had made his name in New York state politics as an eloquent and formidable opponent of slavery . He achieved national notoriety in the Senate in 1858 when , as a ...
... Henry Seward , whom Lincoln intended to nominate as secretary of state , had made his name in New York state politics as an eloquent and formidable opponent of slavery . He achieved national notoriety in the Senate in 1858 when , as a ...
Page 1851
... Henry Herndon, Lincoln's longtime law partner, that “my own opinion of the history of the emancipation proclamation is, that Mr. Lincoln foresaw the necessity for it—long before he issued it.” George Boutwell, the Massachusetts ...
... Henry Herndon, Lincoln's longtime law partner, that “my own opinion of the history of the emancipation proclamation is, that Mr. Lincoln foresaw the necessity for it—long before he issued it.” George Boutwell, the Massachusetts ...
Page 1855
... Henry William Ravenal found that “the tone of Lincolns inaugural was thought belligerent.” The slave system had flourished for six decades because the federal government had been full of people who believed it was right or who were ...
... Henry William Ravenal found that “the tone of Lincolns inaugural was thought belligerent.” The slave system had flourished for six decades because the federal government had been full of people who believed it was right or who were ...
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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