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

• 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
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8078-9541-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817983403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era.