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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... freedom ' has been told many times — but never so well as Allen Guelzo tells it in Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation . ” -James M. McPherson , The Nation " Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation restores in its fullness to our memory and ...
... freedom ' has been told many times — but never so well as Allen Guelzo tells it in Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation . ” -James M. McPherson , The Nation " Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation restores in its fullness to our memory and ...
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... freedom of equality . " -Philadelphia Inquirer “ A book of great import to anyone who wants to recover the central meaning of the Civil War and America and needs to understand the contingencies of freedom ; for all libraries ...
... freedom of equality . " -Philadelphia Inquirer “ A book of great import to anyone who wants to recover the central meaning of the Civil War and America and needs to understand the contingencies of freedom ; for all libraries ...
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... Freedom, Civil War (www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman) and the mammoth resources contained in the Making of America websites maintained by Cornell University and the University of Michigan (www.cdl.library ...
... Freedom, Civil War (www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Colleges/ARHU/Depts/History/Freedman) and the mammoth resources contained in the Making of America websites maintained by Cornell University and the University of Michigan (www.cdl.library ...
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The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo. Allen C. Guelzo THE VILLAS, CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY July 25, 2003, thirty-three years after Kerkrade, the Netherlands Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One Four Ways to Freedom Two The.
The End of Slavery in America Allen C. Guelzo. Allen C. Guelzo THE VILLAS, CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY July 25, 2003, thirty-three years after Kerkrade, the Netherlands Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One Four Ways to Freedom Two The.
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... Freedom Two The President will Rise Three An Instrument in God's Hands Four The Mighty Act Five Fame Takes him by the Hand Postscript Father Abraham Appendix Notes Index Introduction THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION is surely the unhappiest ...
... Freedom Two The President will Rise Three An Instrument in God's Hands Four The Mighty Act Five Fame Takes him by the Hand Postscript Father Abraham Appendix Notes Index Introduction THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION is surely the unhappiest ...
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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 |
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