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 1836
... Virginia , North Carolina , and Tennessee . In February , the seceders formed a new union of their own , the Confederate States of America , and demanded that the United States government turn over all the property , military as well as ...
... Virginia , North Carolina , and Tennessee . In February , the seceders formed a new union of their own , the Confederate States of America , and demanded that the United States government turn over all the property , military as well as ...
Page 1837
... Virginia . No matter that the raid failed , that Brown was swiftly tried and hanged , or that Lincoln publicly condemned Brown . “ When abolition comes by decree of the North , " predicted Georgia supreme court justice Henry L. Benning ...
... Virginia . No matter that the raid failed , that Brown was swiftly tried and hanged , or that Lincoln publicly condemned Brown . “ When abolition comes by decree of the North , " predicted Georgia supreme court justice Henry L. Benning ...
Page 1840
... Virginia and on three others by near - secessionist 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 ...
... Virginia and on three others by near - secessionist 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 ...
Page 1856
... Virginia and the likeliest springboard for federal military operations up the James River peninsula. On May 23 (the same day Virginians voted by a three- to-one margin to ratify Virginia's secession from the Union), a reconnaissance ...
... Virginia and the likeliest springboard for federal military operations up the James River peninsula. On May 23 (the same day Virginians voted by a three- to-one margin to ratify Virginia's secession from the Union), a reconnaissance ...
Page 1857
... Virginia had proclaimed itself part of an entirely new nation. Hence, these slaves were covered, not by a domestic statute, but by international law, and that made them “contraband.” This was, of course, a lawyer's joke: Goods and ...
... Virginia had proclaimed itself part of an entirely new nation. Hence, these slaves were covered, not by a domestic statute, but by international law, and that made them “contraband.” This was, of course, a lawyer's joke: Goods and ...
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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