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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... York Post " The book is a tour de force , making it impossible for anyone to take seriously the simplistic views of Lincoln and the Proclamation that all too often dominate the historical debate today ... Lincoln's Emancipation ...
... York Post " The book is a tour de force , making it impossible for anyone to take seriously the simplistic views of Lincoln and the Proclamation that all too often dominate the historical debate today ... Lincoln's Emancipation ...
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... York Public Library, the New-York Historical Society, and the Houghton Library at Harvard University. My longtime affiliation with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania opened access to the Van ...
... York Public Library, the New-York Historical Society, and the Houghton Library at Harvard University. My longtime affiliation with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania opened access to the Van ...
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... York journalist James R. Gilmore learned very early that " the blacks , though pretending ignorance , are fully acquainted with the questions at issue in the pending contest , " and from the day of Lincoln's election in November 1860 ...
... York journalist James R. Gilmore learned very early that " the blacks , though pretending ignorance , are fully acquainted with the questions at issue in the pending contest , " and from the day of Lincoln's election in November 1860 ...
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... York , Joseph M. Wightman and Fernando Wood , were deeply sympathetic to the South , and so were “ many prominent citizens , ” the Beacon Hill and Beekman Hill blue bloods who were described by an irritated John Murray Forbes as ...
... York , Joseph M. Wightman and Fernando Wood , were deeply sympathetic to the South , and so were “ many prominent citizens , ” the Beacon Hill and Beekman Hill blue bloods who were described by an irritated John Murray Forbes as ...
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... York state politics as an eloquent and formidable opponent of slavery . He achieved national notoriety in the Senate in 1858 when , as a Republican senator from New York , he predicted that slavery and freedom were locked in an ...
... York state politics as an eloquent and formidable opponent of slavery . He achieved national notoriety in the Senate in 1858 when , as a Republican senator from New York , he predicted that slavery and freedom were locked in an ...
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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