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 1806
... 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 impressive ...
... 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 impressive ...
Page 1829
... rebellion and did not include the slaves in the four loyal slave states—Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri—it has been easy to lampoon the Proclamation as a puff of political air. But laws are not the less laws merely because ...
... rebellion and did not include the slaves in the four loyal slave states—Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri—it has been easy to lampoon the Proclamation as a puff of political air. But laws are not the less laws merely because ...
Page 1837
... rebellion ... is more to be feared now than [ it ] was in the days of the Revolution against the mother country , " when the British recruited and armed runaway slaves to fight their former American masters . In South Carolina , Henry ...
... rebellion ... is more to be feared now than [ it ] was in the days of the Revolution against the mother country , " when the British recruited and armed runaway slaves to fight their former American masters . In South Carolina , Henry ...
Page 1857
... rebellion by declaring the three men “contraband of war” and seizing them for the use of the United States? This was a greater compliment to Butler's ingenuity than to his legal acumen: The Paris Convention, after all, had been ...
... rebellion by declaring the three men “contraband of war” and seizing them for the use of the United States? This was a greater compliment to Butler's ingenuity than to his legal acumen: The Paris Convention, after all, had been ...
Page 1863
... rebellion seemed within easy reach . On July 2 , federal troops under the creaking Brigadier General Robert Patterson had splashed across the Potomac River into Virginia near Harper's Ferry , intending to occupy the Shenandoah Valley ...
... rebellion seemed within easy reach . On July 2 , federal troops under the creaking Brigadier General Robert Patterson had splashed across the Potomac River into Virginia near Harper's Ferry , intending to occupy the Shenandoah Valley ...
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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