Deborah Yaffe’s profile of Professor Allen C. Guelzo claims that his book on the Emancipation Proclamation, published two decades ago, is “the first full-length study of the document that ended American slavery.” John Hope Franklin published his own book on the subject in 1963, a century after the proclamation itself.
Deborah Yaffe’s profile of Professor Allen C. Guelzo claims that his book on the Emancipation Proclamation, published two decades ago, is “the first full-length study of the document that ended American slavery.” John Hope Franklin published his own book on the subject in 1963, a century after the proclamation itself.