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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458203803321

Titolo

Lincoln's proclamation [[electronic resource] ] : emancipation reconsidered / / edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8078-9541-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era

Altri autori (Persone)

BlairWilliam Alan

YoungerKaren Fisher

Disciplina

973.7092

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

African Americans - Social conditions - 19th century

Electronic books.

Southern States Social conditions 19th century Congresses

Border States (U.S. Civil War) Social conditions Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Lincoln and the Preconditions for Emancipation: The Moral Grandeur of a Bill of Lading; Colonization and the Myth That Lincoln Prepared the People for Emancipation; Whatever Shall Appear to Be God's Will, I Will Do: The Chicago Initiative and Lincoln's Proclamation; But What Did the Slaves Think of Lincoln?; War, Gender, and Emancipation in the Civil War South; Abraham Lincoln's ''Fellow Citizens''-Before and After Emancipation; Slaves, Servants, and Soldiers: Uneven Paths to Freedom in the Border States, 1861-1865

Celebrating Freedom: The Problem of Emancipation in Public CommemorationContributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president. Widely remembered as the document that ended slavery, the proclamation in fact freed slaves only in the rebellious South (and not in the Border States, where slavery remained legal) and, effectively, only in the parts of the South occupied by the Union. Questions persist regarding Lincoln's moral conviction and the extent to which the proclamation truly represented a radical



stance on the issue of freedom. The eight distinguished contributors to this volume assess the procla