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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782128703321

Titolo

Lincoln and freedom [[electronic resource] ] : slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment / / edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard ; foreword by Joan L. Flinspach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-69785-7

9786613674814

0-8093-8753-0

1-4356-6346-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HolzerHarold

GabbardSara Vaughn

Disciplina

973.7/14

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

United States Politics and government 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in conjunction with the Lincoln Museum."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Joan L. Flinspach -- Introduction / Harold Holzer -- Slavery during Lincoln's lifetime / James Oliver Horton -- Lincoln's critique of Dred Scott as a vindication of the Founding / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Lincoln and the limits of constitutional authority / Phillip Shaw Paludan -- Lincoln, God, and freedom : a promise fulfilled / Lucas E. Morel -- "Sublime in its magnitude" : the Emancipation Proclamation / Allen C. Guelzo -- Lincoln's summer of emancipation / Matthew Pinsker -- The role of the press / Hans L. Trefousse -- Marching to freedom : the U.S. Colored Troops / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln and the rhetoric of freedom / Ronald C. White Jr. -- Ballots over bullets : freedom and the 1864 election / David E. Long -- The Constitution, the amendment process, and the abolition of slavery / Herman Belz -- The Thirteenth Amendment enacted / Michael Vorenberg -- "That which Congress so nobly began" : the men who passed the Thirteenth Amendment resolution / Ron J. Keller -- The end of the beginning : Abraham Lincoln and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments / Frank J. Williams -- Picturing freedom : the Thirteenth Amendment in the



graphic arts / Harold Holzer.