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 1837
... insurrection and race war on the model of the Nat Turner slave revolt in 1831 or the massacres of white planters by their former slaves in San Domingue in 1791. Lincoln's election followed by little more than a year the attempt of the ...
... insurrection and race war on the model of the Nat Turner slave revolt in 1831 or the massacres of white planters by their former slaves in San Domingue in 1791. Lincoln's election followed by little more than a year the attempt of the ...
Page 1840
... insurrection , to put torches and pikes into the hands of such a population to be used against the whites , in re - enacting all the horrors of a St. Domingo massacre . ' " 7 Fear of " servile insurrection " and revulsion at the ...
... insurrection , to put torches and pikes into the hands of such a population to be used against the whites , in re - enacting all the horrors of a St. Domingo massacre . ' " 7 Fear of " servile insurrection " and revulsion at the ...
Page 1856
... month before, Butler had offered federal troops to Maryland governor Thomas Hicks to preempt any possibility of a slave insurrection. But in the course of that month, civil war had begun in earnest, and with that event Butler turned ...
... month before, Butler had offered federal troops to Maryland governor Thomas Hicks to preempt any possibility of a slave insurrection. But in the course of that month, civil war had begun in earnest, and with that event Butler turned ...
Page 1865
... insurrection " and sell it to contribute funds to the war effort.36 The confiscation ( and destruction ) of property in time of war were blackened but routine features of insurrection and civil war in Europe from time out of mind ...
... insurrection " and sell it to contribute funds to the war effort.36 The confiscation ( and destruction ) of property in time of war were blackened but routine features of insurrection and civil war in Europe from time out of mind ...
Page 1866
... insurrection " open to seizure as “ prize and capture , " as though all such property resembled the capture of prizes at sea . And since the Constitution brought “ all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction " under the authority ...
... insurrection " open to seizure as “ prize and capture , " as though all such property resembled the capture of prizes at sea . And since the Constitution brought “ all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction " under the authority ...
Contents
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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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