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 1826
... election in 1860, toward deep conviction about African-American freedom by the time of the Emancipation Proclamation less than two years later. Or else that Lincoln already had all the racial goodwill necessary for emancipation but had ...
... election in 1860, toward deep conviction about African-American freedom by the time of the Emancipation Proclamation less than two years later. Or else that Lincoln already had all the racial goodwill necessary for emancipation but had ...
Page 1831
... elections soon to follow if he issued the Emancipation Proclamation . " Significantly , Lincoln agreed “ as to the political effect of the proclamation . " He knew that the Proclamation , for all that he hoped it would forestall the ...
... elections soon to follow if he issued the Emancipation Proclamation . " Significantly , Lincoln agreed “ as to the political effect of the proclamation . " He knew that the Proclamation , for all that he hoped it would forestall the ...
Page 1835
... election was the first sign in the eyes of anxious Southerners that slavery's national political power was slipping and liable to slip further. “Mr. Lincoln has said that there will be no cessation of agitation until the North sees that ...
... election was the first sign in the eyes of anxious Southerners that slavery's national political power was slipping and liable to slip further. “Mr. Lincoln has said that there will be no cessation of agitation until the North sees that ...
Page 1836
... election meant freedom . The New York journalist James R. Gilmore learned very early that " the blacks , though ... election in November 1860 , wildfire stories had been spreading among Georgia slaves that they " were to be free on the ...
... election meant freedom . The New York journalist James R. Gilmore learned very early that " the blacks , though ... election in November 1860 , wildfire stories had been spreading among Georgia slaves that they " were to be free on the ...
Page 1837
... election . " In Missouri , Louis Hughes remembered " the slaves whispering to each other : ' We will be free . ' " Outside Nashville , young John McCline's father would meet at night with other slaves to " talk over the events and ...
... election . " In Missouri , Louis Hughes remembered " the slaves whispering to each other : ' We will be free . ' " Outside Nashville , young John McCline's father would meet at night with other slaves to " talk over the events 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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