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
... rebels , rebels , and now for other frems EMANCIPATION expe there Pra PROCLAMATION section to co in Persons withew the contemplate to cease portree pating The End of Slavery in America rebellion or States , against the geven and to ...
... rebels , rebels , and now for other frems EMANCIPATION expe there Pra PROCLAMATION section to co in Persons withew the contemplate to cease portree pating The End of Slavery in America rebellion or States , against the geven and to ...
Page 1828
... rebel victories of the War's first year conspired to strip Lincoln of his optimism in the natural , pleasant ascent of progress , but not of his fundamental belief in providence . Instead , the war saw him veer away from a providence ...
... rebel victories of the War's first year conspired to strip Lincoln of his optimism in the natural , pleasant ascent of progress , but not of his fundamental belief in providence . Instead , the war saw him veer away from a providence ...
Page 1837
... machinations of the fanatic abolitionists , who will surely come among us in friendly guise to tamper with our negroes . " In Texas , fires in Dallas , Denton , and Pilot Point sent fearful whites in pursuit of slave rebels.
... machinations of the fanatic abolitionists , who will surely come among us in friendly guise to tamper with our negroes . " In Texas , fires in Dallas , Denton , and Pilot Point sent fearful whites in pursuit of slave rebels.
Page 1838
... rebels who planned " to burn the houses and kill as many of the women and children as they could while the men were gone . " Within a month , as many as fifty blacks and whites had been executed by home guards and vigilante mobs . " Yet ...
... rebels who planned " to burn the houses and kill as many of the women and children as they could while the men were gone . " Within a month , as many as fifty blacks and whites had been executed by home guards and vigilante mobs . " Yet ...
Page 1856
... rebel artillery sent its shells flying toward Sumter. FORTRESS MONROE sat squatly on the tip of Old Point Comfort, another brick-and- stone pentagon guarding the mouth of the James River and the waters of Hampton Roads from any approach ...
... rebel artillery sent its shells flying toward Sumter. FORTRESS MONROE sat squatly on the tip of Old Point Comfort, another brick-and- stone pentagon guarding the mouth of the James River and the waters of Hampton Roads from any approach ...
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 |
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