LEADER 03453nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910452017503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-3458-7 010 $a0-8131-3487-0 010 $a1-283-23321-5 010 $a9786613233219 010 $a0-8131-7273-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000477049 035 $a(EBL)788407 035 $a(OCoLC)173766019 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000096812 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126381 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096812 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10083447 035 $a(PQKB)11747655 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000038479 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC788407 035 $a(OCoLC)607561636 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13798 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL788407 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495386 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL323321 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000477049 100 $a20070510d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAct of justice$b[electronic resource] $eLincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the law of war /$fBurrus M. Carnahan 210 $aLexington $cUniversity Press of Kentucky$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (213 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8131-3821-3 311 $a0-8131-2463-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 173-189) and index. 327 $aFront 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; Index 330 $aIn 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 rather 606 $aSlaves$xEmancipation$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMilitary law$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aExecutive power$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aConstitutional history$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlaves$xEmancipation 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 615 0$aMilitary law$xHistory 615 0$aExecutive power$xHistory 615 0$aConstitutional history 676 $a973.7/14 700 $aCarnahan$b Burrus M.$f1944-$01032315 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452017503321 996 $aAct of justice$92450100 997 $aUNINA