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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 67
Page 1828
... South , the overthrow of the safeguards against slavery's expansion by the Kansas- Nebraska Act , even the Civil War itself — the fundamental direction of events was inevitable and required only a certain amount of machinery - tending ...
... South , the overthrow of the safeguards against slavery's expansion by the Kansas- Nebraska Act , even the Civil War itself — the fundamental direction of events was inevitable and required only a certain amount of machinery - tending ...
Page 1834
... South Carolina . The sentry at the stone gate called for the officer of the watch , Captain John Gray Foster , a New Hampshire engineer , to deal with their mysterious late - night visitor . But when Foster came down to the wharf to ...
... South Carolina . The sentry at the stone gate called for the officer of the watch , Captain John Gray Foster , a New Hampshire engineer , to deal with their mysterious late - night visitor . But when Foster came down to the wharf to ...
Page 1835
... South, was against the government that Sumter and its flag represented. Five months before, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, the nominee of the six-year-old antislavery Republican party, had been elected president of the United States on a ...
... South, was against the government that Sumter and its flag represented. Five months before, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, the nominee of the six-year-old antislavery Republican party, had been elected president of the United States on a ...
Page 1836
... South " a band of turncoats " to be the allies of this party in its insidious warfare upon our family firesides and altars ? ” South Carolina , the most defiant and fiery of the slave states , saw no reason simply to wait for this to ...
... South " a band of turncoats " to be the allies of this party in its insidious warfare upon our family firesides and altars ? ” South Carolina , the most defiant and fiery of the slave states , saw no reason simply to wait for this to ...
Page 1837
... South . The race war would be fought " in every town , in every village , in every neighborhood , in every road . " The North would take advantage of this turmoil to intervene in favor of the blacks , and the result would be the ...
... South . The race war would be fought " in every town , in every village , in every neighborhood , in every road . " The North would take advantage of this turmoil to intervene in favor of the blacks , and the result would be the ...
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 | |
Other editions - View all
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 |
Common terms and phrases
37th Congress abolitionist Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Papers American antislavery army August Bates bill Border Bull Run cabinet Charles Sumner Chase Civil colonization colored commander compensated emancipation Confederacy Confederate Confiscation Act Congressional Globe Constitution contraband courts Daily National Daily National Republican declared Delaware Democrats diary entry District Douglass Edward Bates election Emancipation Proclamation entry for September federal freedom Frémont fugitives George Greeley Hamlin Henry History Illinois insurrection issue James January July Kentucky letter Library of Congress Lyman Trumbull March martial law Maryland McClellan McPherson military Missouri Montgomery Blair negroes Nicolay Northern November officers Orville Hickman Browning persons political Potomac President presidential Radical rebel rebellion Regiment runaways Salmon Salmon Chase Secretary Senate September 22 session Seward slaveholders slavery slaves soldiers South Southern Speeches Stanton United University Press Virginia volume five volume three vote Washington Daily Washington Daily National wrote York Zachariah Chandler