LEADER 03083nam 2200517Ia 450 001 9910791122603321 005 20210806182554.0 010 $a0-8078-9541-5 035 $a(CKB)2560000000009812 035 $a(EBL)475153 035 $a(OCoLC)642660992 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL475153 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10343543 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930013 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC475153 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000009812 100 $a20090420d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 00$aLincoln's proclamation$b[electronic resource] $eemancipation reconsidered /$fedited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 225 1 $aThe Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-3316-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aCelebrating Freedom: The Problem of Emancipation in Public CommemorationContributors; Index 330 $aAbraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president. Widely remembered as the document that ended slavery, the proclamation in fact freed slaves only in the rebellious South (and not in the Border States, where slavery remained legal) and, effectively, only in the parts of the South occupied by the Union. Questions persist regarding Lincoln's moral conviction and the extent to which the proclamation truly represented a radical stance on the issue of freedom. The eight distinguished contributors to this volume assess the procla 410 0$aSteven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era. 606 $aEnslaved persons$xEmancipation$zUnited States$vCongresses$2local 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y19th century$vCongresses 607 $aSouthern States$xSocial conditions$y19th century$vCongresses 607 $aBorder States (U.S. Civil War)$xSocial conditions$vCongresses 615 7$aEnslaved persons$xEmancipation 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 676 $a973.7092 701 $aBlair$b William Alan$01494512 701 $aYounger$b Karen Fisher$01517488 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791122603321 996 $aLincoln's proclamation$93754608 997 $aUNINA