"The Emancipation Proclamation" John Hope Franklin (Doubleday & Company, 1963)
The Emancipation Proclamation
John Hope Franklin (1915–2009)
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1963 (First Edition)
181pp
John Hope Franklin (1915–2009)
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1963 (First Edition)
181pp
Centennial history of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation which freed 3.5 million enslaved African Americans. The “evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln, the circumstances and conditions that led him to make it public [...] its moral and humanitarian significance for contemporary as well as later generations
Table of contents
Prologue: Time of Decision
1. The Precedents and the Pressures
2. The Decision and the Writing
3. The Hundred Days
4. Day of Days
5. Victory More Certain
Epilogue: End of Unrequited Toil
1. The Precedents and the Pressures
2. The Decision and the Writing
3. The Hundred Days
4. Day of Days
5. Victory More Certain
Epilogue: End of Unrequited Toil
