A Contrarian View of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator: Forced Into Glory; Abraham Lincoln's White Dream

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: April 30, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

A Contrarian View of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator: Forced Into Glory; Abraham Lincoln's White Dream

DO WE ATTACH undue significance to Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? Was it a clarion statement of the nation's newfound commitment to liberty and equality during the Civil War? Or is it a document that has acquired meanings in the nation's collective memory contrary to its intended aims and out of proportion to its actual effects? The Rev. C.N. Grandison of Clark University, speaking on January 1, 1888, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

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