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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: the End of Slavery in America.(Book Review)

From: The Christian Century  |  Date: 10/19/2004  |  Author: White, Ronald C., Jr.

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

By Allen C. Guelzo. Simon & Schuster, 352 pp., $26.00.

ALLEN GUELZO'S book leads us into contested territory. For more than a generation after the Civil War, Francis B. Carpenter's painting "The Emancipation Proclamation," portraying Lincoln as the great emancipator, occupied an honored place in many American--including African American--homes. The terrain began to shift during the 1960s civil rights era, as ...

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