The Emancipation Proclamation: Three ViewsLSU Press, 2006 M05 1 - 272 páginas The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. Now, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams, and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember, analyze, and interpret the Emancipation Proclamation in three distinct respects: the influence of and impact upon African Americans; the legal, political, and military exigencies; and the role pictorial images played in establishing the document in public memory. The result is a carefully balanced yet provocative study that views the proclamation and its author from the perspective of fellow Republicans, antiwar Democrats, the press, the military, the enslaved, free blacks, and the antislavery white establishment, as well as the artists, publishers, sculptors, and their patrons who sought to enshrine Abraham Lincoln and his decree of freedom in iconography.Medford places African Americans, the people most affected by Lincoln's edict, at the center of the drama rather than at the periphery, as previous studies have done. She argues that blacks interpreted the proclamation much more broadly than Lincoln intended it, and during the postwar years and into the twentieth century they became disillusioned by the broken promise of equality and the realities of discrimination, violence, and economic dependence. Williams points out the obstacles Lincoln overcame in finding a way to confiscate property -- enslaved humans -- without violating the Constitution. He suggests that the president solidified his reputation as a legal and political genius by issuing the proclamation as Commander-in-Chief, thus taking the property under the pretext of military necessity. Holzer explores how it was only after Lincoln's assassination that the Emancipation Proclamation became an acceptable subject for pictorial celebration. Even then, it was the image of the martyr-president as the great emancipator that resonated in public memory, while any reference to those African Americans most affected by the proclamation was stripped away.This multilayered treatment reveals that the proclamation remains a singularly brave and bold act -- brilliantly calculated to maintain the viability of the Union during wartime, deeply dependent on the enlightened voices of Lincoln's contemporaries, and owing a major debt in history to the image-makers who quickly and indelibly preserved it. |
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... senate race, but the campaign increased his national stature. Despite such statements, Lincoln was no abolitionist. He believed that states had the right to control their own domestic institutions and that the Constitution prevented any ...
... the practice as a requirement of the Fugitive Slave Act, which had yet to be repealed. By late 1861, such imprisonments and abuse in the city jail had embroiled Lamon in a dispute with certain Republican senators and.
... senators and congressmen.29 Lincoln himself became involved in the dispute when he stood steadfast against pressure to fire Lamon and then refused to accept the embattled marshal's resignation when he offered it. After emancipation in ...
... senator Andrew Johnson of Tennessee supported Lincoln's position on the war by proposing a joint resolution disavowing any intent of the federal government to wage war that interfered with southern rights and institutions. Instead, the ...
... senator Orville H. Browning penned a letter to Lincoln chastising him for the Fremont affair, Lincoln used his reply to quell the mounting discontent with his policies. “Genl. Fremont's proclamation, as to confiscation of property, and ...
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The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views Harold Holzer,Edna G. Medford,Frank J. Williams Vista previa limitada - 2006 |