Screen LibraryLincoln's Emancipation Proclamation：the end of slavery in America
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Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st Simon & Schuster paperback ed. |
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| Item Description: | Emancipation Proclamation. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 377 p., [8] plates.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0743262972 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | K712 |
| CLC: | K712.43 |
| Call Number: | K712.43/G925 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-319) and index. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Four ways to freedom -- President will rise -- Instrument in God's hands -- Mighty act -- Fame takes him by the hand -- Postscript: Father Abraham -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index. "I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves...are, and henceforward shall be free...." No other words in American history changed the lives of so many Americans as this declaration from Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Born in the struggle of Lincoln's determination to set slavery on the path to destruction, it has remained a document of struggle. What were Lincoln's real intentions? Prizewinning Lincoln scholar Allen C. Guelzo presents, for the first time, a full scale study of Lincoln's greatest state paper. Using unpublished letters and documents, little-known acco |