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 1825
... that the management of the Civil War would be “ done consistently with the prudence ... which ought always to regulate the public service " and without allowing the war to degenerate “ into a violent and remorseless revolutionary ...
... that the management of the Civil War would be “ done consistently with the prudence ... which ought always to regulate the public service " and without allowing the war to degenerate “ into a violent and remorseless revolutionary ...
Page 1831
... that the Proclamation would discourage it . At home , Pennsylvania politician Alexander McClure warned Lincoln that " political defeat would be inevitable in the great States of the Union in the elections soon to follow if he issued the ...
... that the Proclamation would discourage it . At home , Pennsylvania politician Alexander McClure warned Lincoln that " political defeat would be inevitable in the great States of the Union in the elections soon to follow if he issued the ...
Page 1835
... That the leading object of the mass of the [Republican] party, as a near or ultimate purpose, is the emancipation of the slaves, no man who has marked the power of the fanatical element in the organization and the growth of it can doubt ...
... That the leading object of the mass of the [Republican] party, as a near or ultimate purpose, is the emancipation of the slaves, no man who has marked the power of the fanatical element in the organization and the growth of it can doubt ...
Page 1836
... that the United States government turn over all the property , military as well as civil , that it owned on what was now Confederate soil . The more loudly Southerners repeated their dire prophecies of federally imposed emancipation ...
... that the United States government turn over all the property , military as well as civil , that it owned on what was now Confederate soil . The more loudly Southerners repeated their dire prophecies of federally imposed emancipation ...
Page 1839
... that the unblinking self - righteousness of the abolitionists offered to Northerners was compounded by the injury Northern merchants were likely to suffer if emancipation disrupted the Northern economy . The Democratic mayors of both ...
... that the unblinking self - righteousness of the abolitionists offered to Northerners was compounded by the injury Northern merchants were likely to suffer if emancipation disrupted the Northern economy . The Democratic mayors of both ...
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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