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 1829
... 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 circumstances render them ...
... 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 circumstances render them ...
Page 1830
... the slaves themselves. By running away, by labor sabotage, and by volunteering to serve the Union armies, the slaves forced Lincoln's hand toward emancipation. But looked at in the larger context of nineteenth-century American race ...
... the slaves themselves. By running away, by labor sabotage, and by volunteering to serve the Union armies, the slaves forced Lincoln's hand toward emancipation. But looked at in the larger context of nineteenth-century American race ...
Page 1834
... slaves had done before . The " boy " had heard that the federal government , or at least its representatives in the solitary company of United States artillerymen in Fort Sumter , were now going to free the slaves , and he had paddled ...
... slaves had done before . The " boy " had heard that the federal government , or at least its representatives in the solitary company of United States artillerymen in Fort Sumter , were now going to free the slaves , and he had paddled ...
Page 1835
... that slavery's national political power was slipping and liable to slip further. “Mr. Lincoln has said that there ... the slaves, no man who has marked the power of the fanatical element in the organization and the growth of it can doubt ...
... that slavery's national political power was slipping and liable to slip further. “Mr. Lincoln has said that there ... 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
... slavery ) , plant antislavery federal postmasters , judges , and marshals throughout the slave states , and commission antislavery officers for the military who would turn every federal fort into a refuge for runaways . Could the slave ...
... slavery ) , plant antislavery federal postmasters , judges , and marshals throughout the slave states , and commission antislavery officers for the military who would turn every federal fort into a refuge for runaways . Could the slave ...
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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