Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America Battlewalk including a new appendix (co-authored

including a new appendix (co-authored with J

At Gettysburg

Stanton was a Democrat before the war and a prominent trial lawyer

Richly filled with maps and images

and after seven months and six attempts

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America Battlewalk including a new appendix (co-authoredI do order and declare that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free other words in American history changed the lives of so many Americans as this plain, blunt declaration from Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. But no other words in American history have been so often passed over or held up to greater suspicion. Born in the struggle of Lincoln's determination to set slavery on the path to destruction, it has remained