03083nam 2200517Ia 450 991079112260332120210806182554.00-8078-9541-5(CKB)2560000000009812(EBL)475153(OCoLC)642660992(Au-PeEL)EBL475153(CaPaEBR)ebr10343543(CaONFJC)MIL930013(MiAaPQ)EBC475153(EXLCZ)99256000000000981220090420d2009 ub 0engur|n|---|||||Lincoln's proclamation[electronic resource] emancipation reconsidered /edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher YoungerChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20091 online resource (248 p.)The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War eraDescription based upon print version of record.0-8078-3316-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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, 1861-1865Celebrating Freedom: The Problem of Emancipation in Public CommemorationContributors; IndexAbraham 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 proclaSteven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era.Enslaved personsEmancipationUnited StatesCongresseslocalAfrican AmericansSocial conditions19th centuryCongressesSouthern StatesSocial conditions19th centuryCongressesBorder States (U.S. Civil War)Social conditionsCongressesEnslaved personsEmancipationAfrican AmericansSocial conditions973.7092Blair William Alan1494512Younger Karen Fisher1517488MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791122603321Lincoln's proclamation3754608UNINA