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 1830
... runaways as though a barbecue rather than a war was in progress. Without the Proclamation, the Confederacy even in defeat would have retained legal title to its slaves, and there is little in the oppressive patterns of coercion ...
... runaways as though a barbecue rather than a war was in progress. Without the Proclamation, the Confederacy even in defeat would have retained legal title to its slaves, and there is little in the oppressive patterns of coercion ...
Page 1834
... runaway's story was the same one Foster had heard time and time again : His master had beaten him within an inch of his life for some vague offense , and he had taken his leave . The one detail that was new was paddling out to Sumter ...
... runaway's story was the same one Foster had heard time and time again : His master had beaten him within an inch of his life for some vague offense , and he had taken his leave . The one detail that was new was paddling out to Sumter ...
Page 1836
... runaways . Could the slave South expect to grow , or even survive , when Lincoln " wields the offices and patronage of the Government to cement and strengthen the anti - slavery sentiment which brought his party into existence ? " asked ...
... runaways . Could the slave South expect to grow , or even survive , when Lincoln " wields the offices and patronage of the Government to cement and strengthen the anti - slavery sentiment which brought his party into existence ? " asked ...
Page 1837
... runaway slaves to fight their former American masters . In South Carolina , Henry William Ravenal was surprised to find so " much alarm among the people of servile insurrection " and wrote for the Charleston Mercury on " the necessity ...
... runaway slaves to fight their former American masters . In South Carolina , Henry William Ravenal was surprised to find so " much alarm among the people of servile insurrection " and wrote for the Charleston Mercury on " the necessity ...
Page 1838
... runaways to state authority . And so , without comment , Foster told the “ negro boy " on the jetty he could not stay , and “ he was at once sent back . ” The next day , a party of “ four negroes ( runaways ) ” turned up at the gates of ...
... runaways to state authority . And so , without comment , Foster told the “ negro boy " on the jetty he could not stay , and “ he was at once sent back . ” The next day , a party of “ four negroes ( runaways ) ” turned up at the gates of ...
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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