The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views - Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War

This multilayered treatment reveals that the Emancipation Proclamation remains a singularly brave and bold act - brilliantly calculated to maintain the viability of the Union during wartime, dependent on the enlightened voices of Lincoln's contemporaries, and owing a major debt in history to the image-makers who quickly and indelibly preserved it.