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 1814
... William O. Stoddard's newspaper dispatches, and a reading of the hesitant first pieces of the manuscript. But debts are also owed to John Sellers of the Library of Congress, who not only opened access to papers and collections but ...
... William O. Stoddard's newspaper dispatches, and a reading of the hesitant first pieces of the manuscript. But debts are also owed to John Sellers of the Library of Congress, who not only opened access to papers and collections but ...
Page 1837
... William Ravenal was surprised to find so " much alarm among the people of servile insurrection " and wrote for the Charleston Mercury on " the necessity of vigilance on the part of our people against the secret plottings & machinations ...
... William Ravenal was surprised to find so " much alarm among the people of servile insurrection " and wrote for the Charleston Mercury on " the necessity of vigilance on the part of our people against the secret plottings & machinations ...
Page 1838
... William Lloyd Garrison , Wendell Phillips , Abby Kelley , Sarah and Angelina Grimke , Theodore Dwight Weld , Charles Grandison Finney — had acquired with " quack economics , quack politics , quack law , quack learning " and an ...
... William Lloyd Garrison , Wendell Phillips , Abby Kelley , Sarah and Angelina Grimke , Theodore Dwight Weld , Charles Grandison Finney — had acquired with " quack economics , quack politics , quack law , quack learning " and an ...
Page 1840
... William O. Stoddard , who came to work for the Lincoln White House after Lincoln's inauguration , remembered the capital “ as ' secesh ' to the backbone " and that almost every street had certain windows through which pianos dinged out ...
... William O. Stoddard , who came to work for the Lincoln White House after Lincoln's inauguration , remembered the capital “ as ' secesh ' to the backbone " and that almost every street had certain windows through which pianos dinged out ...
Page 1842
... William Henry Seward , whom Lincoln intended to nominate as secretary of state , had made his name in New York state politics as an eloquent and formidable opponent of slavery . He achieved national notoriety in the Senate in 1858 when ...
... William Henry Seward , whom Lincoln intended to nominate as secretary of state , had made his name in New York state politics as an eloquent and formidable opponent of slavery . He achieved national notoriety in the Senate in 1858 when ...
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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