Understanding the Emancipation Proclamation

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

by: Allen C. Guelzo

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"The complex story of how the war to preserve the Union evolved into a war to give that Union 'a new birth of freedom' has been told many times -- but never so well."-- James M. McPherson

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Biography - Abraham Lincoln: Preserving the Union (A&E DVD Archives)

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The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (Conflicting Worlds)

by: Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams

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The authors (Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, and Frank J. Williams) will be familiar names to readers of Civil War material; each of these historians occasionally discusses the conflict on C-SPAN. Therefore, their essays about the Emancipation Proclamation, the political and moral cynosure of the war, will be greeted with interest. Independent scholar Holzer's essay is the most instantly accessible, interpreting the visual imagery of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Holzer's explanations of a print or statue's creation contain many a curiosity, such as Lincoln's cooperation in the production of the most recognizable image of the proclamation, painter Francis Carpenter's First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. Williams, a judge, embeds the proclamation in its legal context, such as the Confiscation Acts that preceded it, and the Thirteenth Amendment that succeeded it. College professor Medford's more ruminative essay reaches for ambiguities that attend the proclamation, especially its remembrance amidst the postwar resubordination of blacks that dampened, but never entirely extinguished, the initial exultation in the freedom promised by the proclamation. For active Civil War collections.
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American Documents: The Emancipation Proclamation

by: Marianne McComb

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This book describes the roots of slavery in the United States, and examines the reasons why certain people and states were for it, while others were opposed to it. It also explains why President Lincoln issued the proclamation when he did, whom the proclamation freed, and whom it did not, and some of the effects it had on future events. Readers learn about the differences between northern and southern economies, how slavery became a states rights issue, how Congress struggled to maintain a balance between free and slave states, and how Lincoln's election forced 11 southern states to leave the Union and hastened the beginning of the Civil War.

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by: Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Team of Rivals doesn't just tell the story of Abraham Lincoln. It is a multiple biography of the entire team of personal and political competitors that he put together to lead the country through its greatest crisis. Here, Doris Kearns Goodwin profiles five of the key players in her book, four of whom contended for the 1860 Republican presidential nomination and all of whom later worked together in Lincoln's cabinet.

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