Final freedom : the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment / / Michael Vorenberg [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Vorenberg Michael <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 973.7/14 |
Collana | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society |
Soggetto topico |
Slaves - Emancipation - United States
African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century Constitutional history - United States |
ISBN |
1-107-11750-X
1-280-15453-5 0-511-11777-9 0-511-04052-0 0-511-15334-1 0-511-30342-4 0-511-51169-8 0-511-04829-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Slavery's Constitution : Constitution, slavery, and the coming of the Civil War ; Secession crisis : amending the Constitution to protect slavery ; Preserving the Constitution in the War for Emancipation -- Freedom's Constitution : Popular origins of universal emancipation ; Emancipation and reconstruction, Republicans and Democrats ; Presidential emancipation : Lincoln's Reconstruction Proclamation ; Congress responds : proposals for an abolition amendment ; Drafting of the thirteenth amendment -- Facing freedom : Legal theory and practical politics ; Democracy divided ; African Americans and the inadequacy of constitutional emancipation -- Debating freedom : Antislavery amendment and Republican unity ; Slavery, Union, and the meaning of the war ; Constitutional freedom and racial equality ; Unconstitutional constitutional amendment ; Dubious victory -- Key note of freedom : New party, a new amendment : the radical Democrats ; National Union Party and the amendment ; Race, reconstruction, and the Constitution : the changing context ; Party unity and presidential politics -- War within a war : emancipation and the election of 1864 : Parties dividing ; Peace feelers and peace fiascoes ; Retreat from Niagara ; Miscegenation and abolition ; State politics and abolition -- King's cure : New campaign for constitutional emancipation ; Lame ducks, lobbyists, and Lincoln ; Confronting constitutional failure ; Final vote -- Contested legacy of constitutional freedom : Meanings of freedom : the Union states and ratification ; Securing the union : the Confederate states and ratification ; Enacting the amendment : Congress and civil rights ; Legacies denied : the thirteenth amendment in the gilded age ; Legacies preserved : the thirteenth amendment in the 20th century -- Appendix : Votes on antislavery amendment. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449871003321 |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 | ||
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Final freedom : the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment / / Michael Vorenberg [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Vorenberg Michael <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 973.7/14 |
Collana | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society |
Soggetto topico |
Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States
African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century Constitutional history - United States |
ISBN |
1-107-11750-X
1-280-15453-5 0-511-11777-9 0-511-04052-0 0-511-15334-1 0-511-30342-4 0-511-51169-8 0-511-04829-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Slavery's Constitution : Constitution, slavery, and the coming of the Civil War ; Secession crisis : amending the Constitution to protect slavery ; Preserving the Constitution in the War for Emancipation -- Freedom's Constitution : Popular origins of universal emancipation ; Emancipation and reconstruction, Republicans and Democrats ; Presidential emancipation : Lincoln's Reconstruction Proclamation ; Congress responds : proposals for an abolition amendment ; Drafting of the thirteenth amendment -- Facing freedom : Legal theory and practical politics ; Democracy divided ; African Americans and the inadequacy of constitutional emancipation -- Debating freedom : Antislavery amendment and Republican unity ; Slavery, Union, and the meaning of the war ; Constitutional freedom and racial equality ; Unconstitutional constitutional amendment ; Dubious victory -- Key note of freedom : New party, a new amendment : the radical Democrats ; National Union Party and the amendment ; Race, reconstruction, and the Constitution : the changing context ; Party unity and presidential politics -- War within a war : emancipation and the election of 1864 : Parties dividing ; Peace feelers and peace fiascoes ; Retreat from Niagara ; Miscegenation and abolition ; State politics and abolition -- King's cure : New campaign for constitutional emancipation ; Lame ducks, lobbyists, and Lincoln ; Confronting constitutional failure ; Final vote -- Contested legacy of constitutional freedom : Meanings of freedom : the Union states and ratification ; Securing the union : the Confederate states and ratification ; Enacting the amendment : Congress and civil rights ; Legacies denied : the thirteenth amendment in the gilded age ; Legacies preserved : the thirteenth amendment in the 20th century -- Appendix : Votes on antislavery amendment. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777392203321 |
Vorenberg Michael <1964->
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Final freedom : the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment / / Michael Vorenberg |
Autore | Vorenberg Michael <1964-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 973.7/14 |
Collana | Cambridge historical studies in American law and society |
Soggetto topico |
Slaves - Emancipation - United States
African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century Constitutional history - United States |
ISBN |
1-107-11750-X
1-280-15453-5 0-511-11777-9 0-511-04052-0 0-511-15334-1 0-511-30342-4 0-511-51169-8 0-511-04829-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Slavery's Constitution : Constitution, slavery, and the coming of the Civil War ; Secession crisis : amending the Constitution to protect slavery ; Preserving the Constitution in the War for Emancipation -- Freedom's Constitution : Popular origins of universal emancipation ; Emancipation and reconstruction, Republicans and Democrats ; Presidential emancipation : Lincoln's Reconstruction Proclamation ; Congress responds : proposals for an abolition amendment ; Drafting of the thirteenth amendment -- Facing freedom : Legal theory and practical politics ; Democracy divided ; African Americans and the inadequacy of constitutional emancipation -- Debating freedom : Antislavery amendment and Republican unity ; Slavery, Union, and the meaning of the war ; Constitutional freedom and racial equality ; Unconstitutional constitutional amendment ; Dubious victory -- Key note of freedom : New party, a new amendment : the radical Democrats ; National Union Party and the amendment ; Race, reconstruction, and the Constitution : the changing context ; Party unity and presidential politics -- War within a war : emancipation and the election of 1864 : Parties dividing ; Peace feelers and peace fiascoes ; Retreat from Niagara ; Miscegenation and abolition ; State politics and abolition -- King's cure : New campaign for constitutional emancipation ; Lame ducks, lobbyists, and Lincoln ; Confronting constitutional failure ; Final vote -- Contested legacy of constitutional freedom : Meanings of freedom : the Union states and ratification ; Securing the union : the Confederate states and ratification ; Enacting the amendment : Congress and civil rights ; Legacies denied : the thirteenth amendment in the gilded age ; Legacies preserved : the thirteenth amendment in the 20th century -- Appendix : Votes on antislavery amendment. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807826803321 |
Vorenberg Michael <1964->
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Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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