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 1830
... regiments in pursuit of slave runaways as though a barbecue rather than a war was in progress. Without the Proclamation, the Confederacy even in defeat would have retained legal title to its slaves, and there is little in the oppressive ...
... regiments in pursuit of slave runaways as though a barbecue rather than a war was in progress. Without the Proclamation, the Confederacy even in defeat would have retained legal title to its slaves, and there is little in the oppressive ...
Page 1858
... regiment hotly denied that Noland's slave had ever been there , and that was the end of it . Still , if loyal slaveholders were going to be treated by the army just as though they were rebels , or as though there were no Fugitive Slave ...
... regiment hotly denied that Noland's slave had ever been there , and that was the end of it . Still , if loyal slaveholders were going to be treated by the army just as though they were rebels , or as though there were no Fugitive Slave ...
Page 1862
... regiments . He was careful to avoid broad swipes at Southern infamy— the Border staters were Southerners - and he patiently defined the war as a question of whether a democracy built on the consent of the people has any chance of ...
... regiments . He was careful to avoid broad swipes at Southern infamy— the Border staters were Southerners - and he patiently defined the war as a question of whether a democracy built on the consent of the people has any chance of ...
Page 1863
... ended . But on July 21 , McDowell's volunteers , regimental colors flying and bands jubilantly playing “ Dixie , ” marched across a small stream near Manassas known as Bull Run and into a lethal confrontation with 30,000 Confederates.
... ended . But on July 21 , McDowell's volunteers , regimental colors flying and bands jubilantly playing “ Dixie , ” marched across a small stream near Manassas known as Bull Run and into a lethal confrontation with 30,000 Confederates.
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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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