Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation The End of Slavery in America

Name: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation The End of Slavery in America
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ISBN: 9780743299657

ISBN-10: 0743299655

ISBN-13: 9780743299657

Edition: 2006

Authors: Allen C. Guelzo

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One 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…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 11/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Four Ways to Freedom



The President Will Rise



An Instrument In God's Hands



The Mighty Act



Fame Takes Him By The Hand


Postscript: Father Abraham


Appendix


Notes


Index