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 1826
... Northern acceptance of the idea of emancipation. These are both generous sentiments, but I am not sure that generosity is quite what is needed for understanding Lincoln's proclamation. Rather than needing to develop progress, I believe ...
... Northern acceptance of the idea of emancipation. These are both generous sentiments, but I am not sure that generosity is quite what is needed for understanding Lincoln's proclamation. Rather than needing to develop progress, I believe ...
Page 1827
... Northern public opinion remained loudly and frantically hostile to the prospect of emancipation, much less emancipation by presidential decree. Instead of exhibiting patience, Lincoln felt stymied by the unanticipated stubbornness with ...
... Northern public opinion remained loudly and frantically hostile to the prospect of emancipation, much less emancipation by presidential decree. Instead of exhibiting patience, Lincoln felt stymied by the unanticipated stubbornness with ...
Page 1839
... Northern merchants were likely to suffer if emancipation disrupted the Northern economy . The Democratic mayors of both Boston and New York , Joseph M. Wightman and Fernando Wood , were deeply sympathetic to the South , and so were ...
... Northern merchants were likely to suffer if emancipation disrupted the Northern economy . The Democratic mayors of both Boston and New York , Joseph M. Wightman and Fernando Wood , were deeply sympathetic to the South , and so were ...
Page 1843
... Northern people ” have to “ crucify their feelings , in order to maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union . " In his great debates with Stephen A. Douglas during his run in 1858 for Illinois's Senate seat , Lincoln ...
... Northern people ” have to “ crucify their feelings , in order to maintain their loyalty to the constitution and the Union . " In his great debates with Stephen A. Douglas during his run in 1858 for Illinois's Senate seat , Lincoln ...
Page 1844
... Northern free states was " near " abolitionism too . And even when Lincoln would talk about emancipation , it was not on the abolitionists ' terms . He told Missouri lawyer James Taussig in 1863 that " the Union men in Missouri who are ...
... Northern free states was " near " abolitionism too . And even when Lincoln would talk about emancipation , it was not on the abolitionists ' terms . He told Missouri lawyer James Taussig in 1863 that " the Union men in Missouri who are ...
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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