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
... wrote the Proclamation grudgingly and of necessity. Very simply: The Proclamation is a legal document, and legal documents cannot afford very much in the way of flourishes. They have work to do. In this instance, we are dealing with a ...
... wrote the Proclamation grudgingly and of necessity. Very simply: The Proclamation is a legal document, and legal documents cannot afford very much in the way of flourishes. They have work to do. In this instance, we are dealing with a ...
Page 1832
... wrote P.C. Wright in DeBow's Review in July 1846. “ Yet it appears ... that there is no one so little understood , as to its legal effect , when applied to some of the purposes to which it is peculiarly adapted ... A Bill of Lading is ...
... wrote P.C. Wright in DeBow's Review in July 1846. “ Yet it appears ... that there is no one so little understood , as to its legal effect , when applied to some of the purposes to which it is peculiarly adapted ... A Bill of Lading is ...
Page 1837
... wrote for the Charleston Mercury on " the necessity of vigilance on the part of our people against the secret plottings & machinations of the fanatic abolitionists , who will surely come among us in friendly guise to tamper with our ...
... wrote for the Charleston Mercury on " the necessity of vigilance on the part of our people against the secret plottings & machinations of the fanatic abolitionists , who will surely come among us in friendly guise to tamper with our ...
Page 1840
... wrote one antislavery Delaware Unionist , " but we also look upon freedom possessed by a negro , except in a very few cases , as a greater curse . " And , as in the South , even antislavery opinions sat alongside an undercurrent of ...
... wrote one antislavery Delaware Unionist , " but we also look upon freedom possessed by a negro , except in a very few cases , as a greater curse . " And , as in the South , even antislavery opinions sat alongside an undercurrent of ...
Page 1842
... wrote . " [ I ] don't defend it on abstract grounds ... but I regard it as a State necessity , & to be treated as such where it is & removed in ages hence if ever . " This attitude would be as prevalent within the inner circles of ...
... wrote . " [ I ] don't defend it on abstract grounds ... but I regard it as a State necessity , & to be treated as such where it is & removed in ages hence if ever . " This attitude would be as prevalent within the inner circles 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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