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Lincoln's proclamation [[electronic resource] ] : emancipation reconsidered / / edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger



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Titolo: Lincoln's proclamation [[electronic resource] ] : emancipation reconsidered / / edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina: 973.7092
Soggetto topico: Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States
African Americans - Social conditions - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Social conditions 19th century Congresses
Border States (U.S. Civil War) Social conditions Congresses
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: BlairWilliam Alan  
YoungerKaren Fisher  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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, 1861-1865
Celebrating Freedom: The Problem of Emancipation in Public CommemorationContributors; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Abraham 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
Titolo autorizzato: Lincoln's proclamation  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8078-9541-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458203803321
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