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 1823
... Southern Democrats in his reelection bid the next year . ) As the Proclamation's negative symbolic power has risen , efforts to interpret the text have diminished , and examination of the Proclamation's contents has subsided into ...
... Southern Democrats in his reelection bid the next year . ) As the Proclamation's negative symbolic power has risen , efforts to interpret the text have diminished , and examination of the Proclamation's contents has subsided into ...
Page 1835
... 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 element in the organization ...
... 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 element in the organization ...
Page 1839
... Southern commerce " and that Philadelphia's merchants were interested in emancipation in an inverse ratio to " the fearful problem of sacrificing millions of dollars due from their Southern customers . " In Ohio , Jacob Dolson Cox ( the ...
... Southern commerce " and that Philadelphia's merchants were interested in emancipation in an inverse ratio to " the fearful problem of sacrificing millions of dollars due from their Southern customers . " In Ohio , Jacob Dolson Cox ( the ...
Page 1840
... 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 trade ) and Washington society- " if it may be so - called ...
... 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 trade ) and Washington society- " if it may be so - called ...
Page 1841
... Southern rights” and advocated “concession & Conciliation” as the best policy for the new Lincoln administration. 9 The Thirty-sixth Congress was limping in just that spirit through its final lame-duck session when Lincoln arrived for ...
... Southern rights” and advocated “concession & Conciliation” as the best policy for the new Lincoln administration. 9 The Thirty-sixth Congress was limping in just that spirit through its final lame-duck session when Lincoln arrived for ...
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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