The Emancipators from Lincoln to Obama

2016-03-22 History

Author : Anthony Usher
Release : 2016-03-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Emancipators from Lincoln to Obama written by Anthony Usher. This book was released on 2016-03-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slave masters of the twenty-first century are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to perpetuate poverty and slavery in America, rather than to end it, and are enraged against those who break into their strongholds and start liberating those they are intentionally enslaving. The book introduces some prominent emancipators in American history from President Lincoln all the way to President Obama; climaxing with the Greatest Emancipator of all times and also assures readers that one day all mankind will be free at last. Are you ready?" Read The Emancipators, From Lincoln to Obama, published by Page Publishers and is available through the publisher’s Web site www.pagepublishing.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or local bookstores by request; and at Apple iBooks, and Google Play.

The Zealot and the Emancipator

2021-10-12 History

Author : H. W. Brands
Release : 2021-10-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 458/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Zealot and the Emancipator written by H. W. Brands. This book was released on 2021-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin. John Brown was a charismatic and deeply religious man who heard the God of the Old Testament speaking to him, telling him to destroy slavery by any means. When Congress opened Kansas territory to slavery in 1854, Brown raised a band of followers to wage war. His men tore pro-slavery settlers from their homes and hacked them to death with broadswords. Three years later, Brown and his men assaulted the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm slaves with weapons for a race war that would cleanse the nation of slavery. Brown’s violence pointed ambitious Illinois lawyer and former officeholder Abraham Lincoln toward a different solution to slavery: politics. Lincoln spoke cautiously and dreamed big, plotting his path back to Washington and perhaps to the White House. Yet his caution could not protect him from the vortex of violence Brown had set in motion. After Brown’s arrest, his righteous dignity on the way to the gallows led many in the North to see him as a martyr to liberty. Southerners responded with anger and horror to a terrorist being made into a saint. Lincoln shrewdly threaded the needle between the opposing voices of the fractured nation and won election as president. But the time for moderation had passed, and Lincoln’s fervent belief that democracy could resolve its moral crises peacefully faced its ultimate test. The Zealot and the Emancipator is the thrilling account of how two American giants shaped the war for freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

2013 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : David P. Press
Release : 2013
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 646/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by David P. Press. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life, career, and views of the famous President, including his childhood, his leadership during the Civil War, and his abolishment of slavery.

Emancipating Lincoln

2012-03-13 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Harold Holzer
Release : 2012-03-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Emancipating Lincoln written by Harold Holzer. This book was released on 2012-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emancipating Lincoln seeks a new approach to the Emancipation Proclamation, a foundational text of American liberty that in recent years has been subject to woeful misinterpretation. These seventeen hundred words are Lincoln's most important piece of writing, responsible both for his being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient and half-hearted. Harold Holzer, an award-winning Lincoln scholar, invites us to examine the impact of Lincoln's momentous announcement at the moment of its creation, and then as its meaning has changed over time. Using neglected original sources, Holzer uncovers Lincoln's very modern manipulation of the media-from his promulgation of disinformation to the ways he variously withheld, leaked, and promoted the Proclamation- in order to make his society-altering announcement palatable to America. Examining his agonizing revisions, we learn why a peerless prose writer executed what he regarded as his 'greatest act' in leaden language. Turning from word to image, we see the complex responses in American sculpture, painting, and illustration across the past century and a half, as artists sought to criticize, lionize, and profit from Lincoln's endeavor. Holzer shows the faults in applying our own standards to Lincoln's efforts, but also demonstrates how Lincoln's obfuscations made it nearly impossible to discern his true motives. As we approach the 150th anniversary of the Proclamation, this concise volume is a vivid depiction of the painfully slow march of all Americans-white and black, leaders and constituents-toward freedom. -- Publisher description.

Emancipating Lincoln

2012-02-27 History

Author : Harold Holzer
Release : 2012-02-27
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 289/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Emancipating Lincoln written by Harold Holzer. This book was released on 2012-02-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emancipating Lincoln seeks a new approach to the Emancipation Proclamation, a foundational text of American liberty that in recent years has been subject to woeful misinterpretation. These seventeen hundred words are Lincoln's most important piece of writing, responsible both for his being hailed as the Great Emancipator and for his being pilloried by those who consider his once-radical effort at emancipation insufficient and half-hearted. Harold Holzer, an award-winning Lincoln scholar, invites us to examine the impact of Lincoln’s momentous announcement at the moment of its creation, and then as its meaning has changed over time. Using neglected original sources, Holzer uncovers Lincoln’s very modern manipulation of the media—from his promulgation of disinformation to the ways he variously withheld, leaked, and promoted the Proclamation—in order to make his society-altering announcement palatable to America. Examining his agonizing revisions, we learn why a peerless prose writer executed what he regarded as his “greatest act” in leaden language. Turning from word to image, we see the complex responses in American sculpture, painting, and illustration across the past century and a half, as artists sought to criticize, lionize, and profit from Lincoln’s endeavor. Holzer shows the faults in applying our own standards to Lincoln’s efforts, but also demonstrates how Lincoln’s obfuscations made it nearly impossible to discern his true motives. As we approach the 150th anniversary of the Proclamation, this concise volume is a vivid depiction of the painfully slow march of all Americans—white and black, leaders and constituents—toward freedom.

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