Abraham Lincoln And The Road To Emancipation 1861 1865

Author : William K. Klingaman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101218709

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Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865 by William K. Klingaman Pdf

In this comprehensive account of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, William K. Klingaman takes a fresh look at what is arguably the most controversial reform in American history. Taking the reader from Lincoln's inauguration through the Civil War to his tragic assassination, it uncovers the complex political and psychological pressures facing Lincoln in his consideration of the slavery question, including his decision to issue the proclamation without consulting any member of his cabinet, and his meticulous attention to every word of the document. The book concludes with a discussion of what the Emancipation Proclamation really meant to four million newly freed blacks and its subsequent impact on race relations in America.

Author : Henry Clay Whitney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433082349873

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Lincoln the President (March 4, 1861 to May 3, 1865) by Henry Clay Whitney Pdf

Author : United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln),Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Slaves
ISBN : 1557090386

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The Emancipation Proclamation by United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln),Abraham Lincoln Pdf

Pocket-sized copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Author : Allen C. Guelzo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416547952

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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation by Allen C. Guelzo Pdf

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 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.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141956633

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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

The Address was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, during the American Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author : James Oakes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324005865

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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution by James Oakes Pdf

Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action—in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade—they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King’s cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.

Author : United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Slaves
ISBN : 0605586438

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The Emancipation Proclamation by United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) Pdf

The announcement made by President Lincoln during the Civil War on September 22, 1862, emancipating all black slaves in states still engaged in rebellion against the Union.

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092907942

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Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312227639

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Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War by Abraham Lincoln Pdf

Letting Lincoln's eloquent voice speak for itself, editor Michael Johnson has collected more than 180 of the writings and speeches that illuminate Lincoln's life and career, from his youth to his entry into Republican politics and through his presidency. Classics like the Kansas-Nebraska speech, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, and the Gettysburg Address, along with less familiar writings -- poignant letters to individual voters, notes to generals on military strategy, and stirring public speeches -- show the development of Lincoln's thought on free labor, slavery, secession, the Civil War, and emancipation. Johnson provides historical context by weaving an engaging narrative around Lincoln's own words, making this volume the most accessible collection of Lincoln's writings available.

Author : Hans Louis Trefousse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0397473362

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Lincoln's Decision for Emancipation by Hans Louis Trefousse Pdf

Author : William A. Blair,Karen Fisher Younger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807895415

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Lincoln’s Proclamation by William A. Blair,Karen Fisher Younger Pdf

The Emancipation Proclamation, widely remembered as the heroic act that ended slavery, in fact freed slaves only in states in the rebellious South. True emancipation was accomplished over a longer period and by several means. Essays by eight distinguished contributors consider aspects of the president's decision making, as well as events beyond Washington, offering new insights on the consequences and legacies of freedom, the engagement of black Americans in their liberation, and the issues of citizenship and rights that were not decided by Lincoln's document. The essays portray emancipation as a product of many hands, best understood by considering all the actors, the place, and the time. The contributors are William A. Blair, Richard Carwardine, Paul Finkelman, Louis Gerteis, Steven Hahn, Stephanie McCurry, Mark E. Neely Jr., Michael Vorenberg, and Karen Fisher Younger.

Author : Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Donald Yacovone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400832088

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Lincoln on Race and Slavery by Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Donald Yacovone Pdf

From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the most comprehensive collection of Lincoln's writings on race and slavery Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery, yet he also harbored grave doubts about the intellectual capacity of African Americans, publicly used the n-word until at least 1862, and favored permanent racial segregation. In this book—the first complete collection of Lincoln's important writings on both race and slavery—readers can explore these contradictions through Lincoln's own words. Acclaimed Harvard scholar and documentary filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s. Complete with definitive texts, rich historical notes, and an original introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this book charts the progress of a war within Lincoln himself. We witness his struggles with conflicting aims and ideas—a hatred of slavery and a belief in the political equality of all men, but also anti-black prejudices and a determination to preserve the Union even at the cost of preserving slavery. We also watch the evolution of his racial views, especially in reaction to the heroic fighting of black Union troops. At turns inspiring and disturbing, Lincoln on Race and Slavery is indispensable for understanding what Lincoln's views meant for his generation—and what they mean for our own.

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 039308082X

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The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner Pdf

“A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston Globe Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see Lincoln, a pragmatic politician grounded in principle, deftly navigating the dynamic politics of antislavery, secession, and civil war. Lincoln's greatness emerges from his capacity for moral and political growth.

Author : James Oakes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393089714

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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 by James Oakes Pdf

Winner of the Lincoln Prize "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost a war to restore the Union and only gradually, when it became a military necessity, a war to end slavery. These two aims—"Liberty and Union, one and inseparable"—were intertwined in Republican policy from the very start of the war. By summer 1861 the federal government invoked military authority to begin freeing slaves, immediately and without slaveholder compensation, as they fled to Union lines in the disloyal South. In the loyal Border States the Republicans tried coaxing officials into gradual abolition with promises of compensation and the colonization abroad of freed blacks. James Oakes shows that Lincoln’s landmark 1863 proclamation marked neither the beginning nor the end of emancipation: it triggered a more aggressive phase of military emancipation, sending Union soldiers onto plantations to entice slaves away and enlist the men in the army. But slavery proved deeply entrenched, with slaveholders determined to re-enslave freedmen left behind the shifting Union lines. Lincoln feared that the war could end in Union victory with slavery still intact. The Thirteenth Amendment that so succinctly abolished slavery was no formality: it was the final act in a saga of immense war, social upheaval, and determined political leadership. Fresh and compelling, this magisterial history offers a new understanding of the death of slavery and the rebirth of a nation.

Author : The National Archives
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198042273

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Our Documents by The National Archives Pdf

Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.