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 1814
... newspaper dispatches, and a reading of the hesitant first pieces of the manuscript. But debts are also owed to John Sellers of the Library of Congress, who not only opened access to papers and collections but unstintingly shared ...
... newspaper dispatches, and a reading of the hesitant first pieces of the manuscript. But debts are also owed to John Sellers of the Library of Congress, who not only opened access to papers and collections but unstintingly shared ...
Page 1815
... Papers at the University of Maine for me . A particular word of thanks goes to Harold Holzer of the Metropolitan Museum for a copy of Charles Eberstadt's Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ; to Dr. H. Dean Trulear for drawing my ...
... Papers at the University of Maine for me . A particular word of thanks goes to Harold Holzer of the Metropolitan Museum for a copy of Charles Eberstadt's Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ; to Dr. H. Dean Trulear for drawing my ...
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... Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress undertaken by the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College (Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, directors) and posted on the Library of Congress website (www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almss) ...
... Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress undertaken by the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College (Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, directors) and posted on the Library of Congress website (www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/almss) ...
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... newspapers, beginning with the Washington papers, so as to offer them in CD-ROM or DVD format. Alongside me at all times has been my wife, Debra, whose faithfulness and patience with this project were always a shelter from weariness ...
... newspapers, beginning with the Washington papers, so as to offer them in CD-ROM or DVD format. Alongside me at all times has been my wife, Debra, whose faithfulness and patience with this project were always a shelter from weariness ...
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... Lincoln's great presidential papers . Taken at face value , the Emancipation Proclamation was the most revolutionary pronouncement ever signed by an American president , striking the legal shackles from four million black slaves and ...
... Lincoln's great presidential papers . Taken at face value , the Emancipation Proclamation was the most revolutionary pronouncement ever signed by an American president , striking the legal shackles from four million black slaves and ...
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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