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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... America rebellion or States , against the geven and to return to thew f to the United States , on pain of th d seizures , as witten Over perely make known that it n is such to age Praise for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation " This ...
... America rebellion or States , against the geven and to return to thew f to the United States , on pain of th d seizures , as witten Over perely make known that it n is such to age Praise for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation " This ...
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... in The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It ( 1948 ) . A onetime member of the circle of American Marxist intellectuals around Partisan Review , Hofstadter repudiated the traditional Progressive view of American ...
... in The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It ( 1948 ) . A onetime member of the circle of American Marxist intellectuals around Partisan Review , Hofstadter repudiated the traditional Progressive view of American ...
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... 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 repeated that he was interested only in preventing the further ...
... 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 repeated that he was interested only in preventing the further ...
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... of the union between the State of South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States of America . " 3 South Carolina was followed over the next six weeks by the slave states of the lower South - Mississippi , Florida ...
... of the union between the State of South Carolina and other States under the name of the United States of America . " 3 South Carolina was followed over the next six weeks by the slave states of the lower South - Mississippi , Florida ...
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... of the American people , who understood themselves to be the real government of the United States . But in case any Americans had dodged this missile , Wendell Phillips decided to increase the volume of explosive : " The Constitution ...
... of the American people , who understood themselves to be the real government of the United States . But in case any Americans had dodged this missile , Wendell Phillips decided to increase the volume of explosive : " The Constitution ...
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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