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 1841
... session when Lincoln arrived for his inauguration, and it continued sitting right up to March 4, 1861, deliberating over compromises that would lure the South back into the Union. In the House of Representatives, a Committee of Thirty ...
... session when Lincoln arrived for his inauguration, and it continued sitting right up to March 4, 1861, deliberating over compromises that would lure the South back into the Union. In the House of Representatives, a Committee of Thirty ...
Page 1852
... session of Congress and you will not find a single man saying that Slavery is a good thing , " Lincoln wrote in 1859. “ The reason is this . The Framers of the Organic Law believed that the Constitution would outlast Slavery and they ...
... session of Congress and you will not find a single man saying that Slavery is a good thing , " Lincoln wrote in 1859. “ The reason is this . The Framers of the Organic Law believed that the Constitution would outlast Slavery and they ...
Page 1860
... session on July 4 , 1861 . Thanks to the November elections and the withdrawal of the seceding South's predominantly ... sessions “ so as to leave no chance for hesitation , or division , amongst themselves . " Navy Secretary Gideon ...
... session on July 4 , 1861 . Thanks to the November elections and the withdrawal of the seceding South's predominantly ... sessions “ so as to leave no chance for hesitation , or division , amongst themselves . " Navy Secretary Gideon ...
Page 1862
... session assembled in Washington on July 4 , Republicans were ready to tread lightly around the Border staters , and the Border state delegations in both House and Senate were ready to play on that fear . The next day , Lincoln sent a ...
... session assembled in Washington on July 4 , Republicans were ready to tread lightly around the Border staters , and the Border state delegations in both House and Senate were ready to play on that fear . The next day , Lincoln sent a ...
Page 1863
... session of Congress ended . But on July 21 , McDowell's volunteers , regimental colors flying and bands jubilantly playing “ Dixie , ” marched across a small stream near Manassas known as Bull Run and into a lethal confrontation with ...
... session of Congress ended . But on July 21 , McDowell's volunteers , regimental colors flying and bands jubilantly playing “ Dixie , ” marched across a small stream near Manassas known as Bull Run and into a lethal confrontation with ...
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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