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 1817
... ( March 22 , 2003 ) and forthcoming in the Journal of Illinois History • “ How Abe Lincoln Lost the Black Vote : The Lincoln Image in the African - American Mind , " originally presented to the Abraham Lincoln Association's annual Lincoln ...
... ( March 22 , 2003 ) and forthcoming in the Journal of Illinois History • “ How Abe Lincoln Lost the Black Vote : The Lincoln Image in the African - American Mind , " originally presented to the Abraham Lincoln Association's annual Lincoln ...
Page 1834
... March 11 , 1861 , a small " canoe " cautiously bobbed up beside the granite wharf of Fort Sumter , a three - story brick pentagon that squatted on a man - made spit of rubble in the middle of the harbor of Charleston , South Carolina ...
... March 11 , 1861 , a small " canoe " cautiously bobbed up beside the granite wharf of Fort Sumter , a three - story brick pentagon that squatted on a man - made spit of rubble in the middle of the harbor of Charleston , South Carolina ...
Page 1835
... March 1861 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger. “That the leading object of the mass of the [Republican] party, as a near or ultimate purpose, is the emancipation of the slaves, no man who has marked the power of the fanatical ...
... March 1861 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger. “That the leading object of the mass of the [Republican] party, as a near or ultimate purpose, is the emancipation of the slaves, no man who has marked the power of the fanatical ...
Page 1840
... March 4 , 1861 , " as unattractive , straggling , sodden a town , wandering up and down the left bank of the yellow Potomac , as the fancy can sketch . ” 8 Surrounded as it was on one side by secessionist Virginia and on three others by ...
... March 4 , 1861 , " as unattractive , straggling , sodden a town , wandering up and down the left bank of the yellow Potomac , as the fancy can sketch . ” 8 Surrounded as it was on one side by secessionist Virginia and on three others by ...
Page 1841
... March 4, 1861, deliberating over compromises that would lure the South back into the Union. In the House of Representatives, a Committee of Thirty-three was authorized on December 4, 1860, to prepare compromise measures; after ...
... March 4, 1861, deliberating over compromises that would lure the South back into the Union. In the House of Representatives, a Committee of Thirty-three was authorized on December 4, 1860, to prepare compromise measures; after ...
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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