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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... Lincoln's epoch - making Emancipation Proclamation ... The political and legal reasoning behind Lincoln's series of hugely difficult decisions has never been presented so well before nor in such authoritative detail ... It's hard to ...
... Lincoln's epoch - making Emancipation Proclamation ... The political and legal reasoning behind Lincoln's series of hugely difficult decisions has never been presented so well before nor in such authoritative detail ... It's hard to ...
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... Lincoln , ” in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ( Autumn 2000 ) • · “ Defending Emancipation : Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling Letter , August , 1863 , " in Civil War History ( December 2002 ) • " Understanding Emancipation ...
... Lincoln , ” in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ( Autumn 2000 ) • · “ Defending Emancipation : Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling Letter , August , 1863 , " in Civil War History ( December 2002 ) • " Understanding Emancipation ...
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... Lincoln and for the Emancipation Proclamation . Lincoln's opposition to slavery , in Hofstadter's reckoning , was kindled only by the threat it posed to free white labor and the development of industrial capitalism . Lincoln " was , as ...
... Lincoln and for the Emancipation Proclamation . Lincoln's opposition to slavery , in Hofstadter's reckoning , was kindled only by the threat it posed to free white labor and the development of industrial capitalism . Lincoln " was , as ...
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... Lincoln our last Enlightenment politician. The contours of Lincoln's mind—his allegiance to “reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason”; his aversion to the politics of passion; the distance he maintained from organized religion ...
... Lincoln our last Enlightenment politician. The contours of Lincoln's mind—his allegiance to “reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason”; his aversion to the politics of passion; the distance he maintained from organized religion ...
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... Lincoln but as a process in which pressure was exerted on Lincoln and Congress by the slaves themselves. By running away, by labor sabotage, and by volunteering to serve the Union armies, the slaves forced Lincoln's hand toward ...
... Lincoln but as a process in which pressure was exerted on Lincoln and Congress by the slaves themselves. By running away, by labor sabotage, and by volunteering to serve the Union armies, the slaves forced Lincoln's hand toward ...
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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