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Redeeming the Great Emancipator (Hardcover)
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Redeeming the Great Emancipator (Hardcover)
Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
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The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the
screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great
Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of
Lincoln's identity is precisely the dimension that some historians
have cast into doubt. In a vigorous defense of America's sixteenth
president, award-winning historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo
refutes accusations of Lincoln's racism and political opportunism,
while candidly probing the follies of contemporary cynicism and the
constraints of today's unexamined faith in the liberating powers of
individual autonomy. Redeeming the Great Emancipator enumerates
Lincoln's anti-slavery credentials, showing that a deeply held
belief in the God-given rights of all people steeled the president
in his commitment to emancipation and his hope for racial
reconciliation. Emancipation did not achieve complete freedom for
American slaves, nor was Lincoln entirely above some of the racial
prejudices of his time. Nevertheless, his conscience and moral
convictions far outweighed political calculations in ultimately
securing freedom for black Americans. Guelzo clarifies the
historical record concerning what the Emancipation Proclamation did
and did not accomplish. As a policy it was imperfect, but it was
far from ineffectual, as some accounts of African American
self-emancipation imply. To achieve liberation required
interdependence across barriers of race and status. If we fail to
recognize our debt to the sacrifices and ingenuity of all the brave
men and women of the past, Guelzo says, then we deny a precious
part of the American and, indeed, the human community.
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