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 1835
... antislavery Republican party, had been elected president of the United States on a platform that pledged to restrain the growth of black slavery in the American Union to the fifteen states where it was then legal. Although Lincoln ...
... antislavery Republican party, had been elected president of the United States on a platform that pledged to restrain the growth of black slavery in the American Union to the fifteen states where it was then legal. Although Lincoln ...
Page 1836
... antislavery officials ( who would make sure the territories were organized without protections for slavery ) , plant antislavery federal postmasters , judges , and marshals throughout the slave states , and commission antislavery ...
... antislavery officials ( who would make sure the territories were organized without protections for slavery ) , plant antislavery federal postmasters , judges , and marshals throughout the slave states , and commission antislavery ...
Page 1839
... antislavery might feel perfectly satisfied simply opposing any further extension of slavery into the West , favoring the colonization of freed slaves somewhere outside the United States ( with west Africa as the dumping ground of choice ) ...
... antislavery might feel perfectly satisfied simply opposing any further extension of slavery into the West , favoring the colonization of freed slaves somewhere outside the United States ( with west Africa as the dumping ground of choice ) ...
Page 1840
... antislavery opinions sat alongside an undercurrent of white apprehension that emancipation meant race war , the ... anti- Slavery men then in Congress " being " utterly ignored by Washington society " and defensively gathered around ...
... antislavery opinions sat alongside an undercurrent of white apprehension that emancipation meant race war , the ... anti- Slavery men then in Congress " being " utterly ignored by Washington society " and defensively gathered around ...
Page 1842
... antislavery governor and the " attorney general for fugitives . " Still , even Salmon Chase acknowledged that the Constitution tied his hands . " There in the Slave States are fellow citizens , who verily believe otherwise than I do ...
... antislavery governor and the " attorney general for fugitives . " Still , even Salmon Chase acknowledged that the Constitution tied his hands . " There in the Slave States are fellow citizens , who verily believe otherwise than I do ...
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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