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

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Siddali, Silvana R | Copyright information

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America. By Alien C. Guelzo. (New York and other cities: Simon and Schuster, c. 2004. Pp. xviii, 332. Paper, $14.00, ISBN 0-7432-6297-2; cloth, $26.00, ISBN 0-7432-2182-6.)

In his own time and for more than a century after his death, Abraham Lincoln's hagiographers and detractors alike created a larger-than-life image of the man-one that represented and was somehow made answerable for American democratic ideals and disappointme...

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