03435nam 2200721 a 450 991082167060332120240514044619.00-8131-3458-70-8131-3487-01-283-23321-597866132332190-8131-7273-X(CKB)1000000000477049(EBL)788407(OCoLC)173766019(SSID)ssj0000096812(PQKBManifestationID)11126381(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096812(PQKBWorkID)10083447(PQKB)11747655(StDuBDS)EDZ0000038479(OCoLC)607561636(MdBmJHUP)muse13798(Au-PeEL)EBL788407(CaPaEBR)ebr10495386(CaONFJC)MIL323321(MiAaPQ)EBC788407(EXLCZ)99100000000047704920070510d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAct of justice Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the law of war /Burrus M. Carnahan1st ed.Lexington University Press of Kentuckyc20071 online resource (213 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8131-3821-3 0-8131-2463-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-189) and index.Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Planting the Seed: Charles Sumner and John Quincy Adams; 2. The Supreme Court on Private Property and War; 3. Criminal Conspiracy or War?; 4. The Union Applies the Law of War; 5. The Law as a Weapon; 6. Congress Acts and the Confederacy Responds; 7. Military Necessity and Lincoln's Concept of the War; 8. The Proclamation as a Weapon of War; 9. The Conkling Letter; 10. A Radical Recognition of Freedom; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Appendix E; Appendix F; Notes; IndexIn his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would ""have no lawful right"" to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet less than two years later, he issued a proclamation intended to free all slaves throughout the Confederate states. When critics challenged the constitutional soundness of the act, Lincoln asserted that he was endowed ""with the law of war in time of war."" In Act of Justice, Burrus M. Carnahan contends Lincoln was no reluctant emancipator; he wrote a truly radical document that treated Confederate slaves as an oppressed people ratherEnslaved personsEmancipationUnited StatesAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etcHistory19th centuryMilitary lawUnited StatesHistory19th centuryExecutive powerUnited StatesHistory19th centuryConstitutional historyUnited StatesEnslaved personsEmancipationAfrican AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.HistoryMilitary lawHistoryExecutive powerHistoryConstitutional history973.7/14Carnahan Burrus M.1944-1707871MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821670603321Act of justice4096405UNINA