Read the selection "Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" and answer the following questions:
1. Most of us are familiar with the story of Lincoln, the unambitious rail-splitting man of the people. How
does Oates's biographical portrait of Lincoln reveal the complex human being behind this mythical image?
2. How was Lincoln able to reconcile his reverence/love for the founders and the Constitution with the
moral paradox of slavery in a free society?
3. What was the slave power that and many other feared the late 1850s? How had the events of that crucial
decade seemed to confirm their fears?
4. Oates says that the pressures and problems of fighting a civil war finally caused Lincoln to hurl an
executive fist at slavery. What were the forces that led Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation?
5. Many of Lincoln's contemporaries as well as later scholars accused Lincoln of having made an empty
gesture with the Emancipation Proclamation. How does Oates answer these accusations?
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