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 1828
... power . This is not the most optimistic way of looking at the world , but it can lend a certain confidence to one's plans if the direction in which determinism is pointing also happens to be the upward path you are following . Lincoln ...
... power . This is not the most optimistic way of looking at the world , but it can lend a certain confidence to one's plans if the direction in which determinism is pointing also happens to be the upward path you are following . Lincoln ...
Page 1830
... power available to him to free every slave in the Confederacy, but he certainly had the authority, and in law, the authority is as good as the power. The proof is in the pudding: No slave declared free by the Proclamation was ever ...
... power available to him to free every slave in the Confederacy, but he certainly had the authority, and in law, the authority is as good as the power. The proof is in the pudding: No slave declared free by the Proclamation was ever ...
Page 1835
... 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 a policy is inaugurated which will place slavery 'where the public mind will rest in the belief ...
... 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 a policy is inaugurated which will place slavery 'where the public mind will rest in the belief ...
Page 1841
... power, the moderate and conservative and upright minds of the South will see that we contemplate no injury to them.” Wisconsin Republican senator J. R. Doolittle was advised not to press too hard on the secessionists .
... power, the moderate and conservative and upright minds of the South will see that we contemplate no injury to them.” Wisconsin Republican senator J. R. Doolittle was advised not to press too hard on the secessionists .
Page 1843
... power over slavery in the states . ” 13 Lincoln was being perfectly transparent when he declared , “ If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . " But when he spoke against slavery , he was speaking against the institution , and not ...
... power over slavery in the states . ” 13 Lincoln was being perfectly transparent when he declared , “ If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . " But when he spoke against slavery , he was speaking against the institution , and not ...
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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