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 1816
... Maryland's Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, Civil War (www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman) and the mammoth resources contained in the Making of America websites maintained by Cornell ...
... Maryland's Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, Civil War (www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman) and the mammoth resources contained in the Making of America websites maintained by Cornell ...
Page 1829
... 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 be ashamed ...
... 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 be ashamed ...
Page 1840
... Maryland , Washington was " in all social and industrial aspects a Southern town " and fully as hostile to the preachers of emancipation as New Orleans or Mobile . Slavery was legal in the District of Columbia ( although not the slave ...
... Maryland , Washington was " in all social and industrial aspects a Southern town " and fully as hostile to the preachers of emancipation as New Orleans or Mobile . Slavery was legal in the District of Columbia ( although not the slave ...
Page 1856
... had offered federal troops to Maryland governor Thomas Hicks to preempt any possibility of a slave insurrection. But in the course of that month, civil war had begun in earnest, and with that event Butler turned himself.
... had offered federal troops to Maryland governor Thomas Hicks to preempt any possibility of a slave insurrection. But in the course of that month, civil war had begun in earnest, and with that event Butler turned himself.
Page 1858
... Maryland , which was a slave state but also still loyal to the Union . Legally , the Fugitive Slave Law still operated in Maryland , and Unionist slaveholders there fully expected that Butler's contraband rule had no reference to them ...
... Maryland , which was a slave state but also still loyal to the Union . Legally , the Fugitive Slave Law still operated in Maryland , and Unionist slaveholders there fully expected that Butler's contraband rule had no reference to them ...
Contents
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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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