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 1814
... on the Emancipation Proclamation from his overflowing files, advance texts of his edition of William O. Stoddard's newspaper dispatches, and a reading of the hesitant first pieces of the manuscript. But debts are also owed to John ...
... on the Emancipation Proclamation from his overflowing files, advance texts of his edition of William O. Stoddard's newspaper dispatches, and a reading of the hesitant first pieces of the manuscript. But debts are also owed to John ...
Page 1816
... on the Internet and in CD-ROM or DVD format has played much more of a role in this book than one might expect from a researcher whose technology skills are but little advanced over hunt-and-peck. The emancipation materials posted on the ...
... on the Internet and in CD-ROM or DVD format has played much more of a role in this book than one might expect from a researcher whose technology skills are but little advanced over hunt-and-peck. The emancipation materials posted on the ...
Page 1825
... on the grounds of " the rights of humanity , " the " considerations of a common interest , " and on " prudence . " So also for Lincoln : The practice of politics involved the rule of prudence , and " obeying the dictates of prudence ...
... on the grounds of " the rights of humanity , " the " considerations of a common interest , " and on " prudence . " So also for Lincoln : The practice of politics involved the rule of prudence , and " obeying the dictates of prudence ...
Page 1826
... on the politics of prudence than Hofstadter. Most often, this pulling apart happens whenever we are tempted to plead that Lincoln was either a man in progress or a man of patience. That is, Lincoln was (as Horace Greeley put it) “a ...
... on the politics of prudence than Hofstadter. Most often, this pulling apart happens whenever we are tempted to plead that Lincoln was either a man in progress or a man of patience. That is, Lincoln was (as Horace Greeley put it) “a ...
Page 1830
... on the first year and a half of the war bulge with accounts of thwarted slaveowners with court papers in their hands and sheriffs at their sides, stalking through the camps of Union regiments in pursuit of slave runaways as though a ...
... on the first year and a half of the war bulge with accounts of thwarted slaveowners with court papers in their hands and sheriffs at their sides, stalking through the camps of Union regiments in pursuit of slave runaways as though a ...
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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