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The Emancipation Proclamation : three views : social, political, iconographic / Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams ; with a foreword by John Hope Franklin.

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The Emancipation Proclamation : three views : social, political, iconographic / Harold Holzer, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams ; with a foreword by John Hope Franklin.
Author
Holzer, Harold
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Medford, Edna Greene
  • Williams, Frank J.
  • Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM
Description
xii, 162 p. : ill.; 27 cm.
Summary
"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." -- publisher website (October 2006).
Series Statement
Conflicting worlds
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • Conflicting worlds
Subject
  • Lincoln, Abraham
  • United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
  • Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-156) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Imagined Promises, Bitter Realities: African Americans and the Meaning of the Emancipation Proclamation / Edna Greene Medford -- "Doing Less" and "Doing More": The President and the Proclamation-Legally, Militarily, and Politically / Frank J. Williams -- Picturing Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation in Art, Iconography, and Memory / Harold Holzer.
ISBN
080713144X (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005024802
OCLC
  • 61463597
  • SCSB-10241936
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library