Lincoln and freedom slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment /

Lincoln and freedom slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment / [electronic resource] : edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard ; foreword by Joan L. Flinspach. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007. - viii, 271 p. : ill.

"Published in conjunction with the Lincoln Museum."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Joan L. Flinspach -- Introduction / Harold Holzer -- Slavery during Lincoln's lifetime / James Oliver Horton -- Lincoln's critique of Dred Scott as a vindication of the Founding / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Lincoln and the limits of constitutional authority / Phillip Shaw Paludan -- Lincoln, God, and freedom : a promise fulfilled / Lucas E. Morel -- "Sublime in its magnitude" : the Emancipation Proclamation / Allen C. Guelzo -- Lincoln's summer of emancipation / Matthew Pinsker -- The role of the press / Hans L. Trefousse -- Marching to freedom : the U.S. Colored Troops / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln and the rhetoric of freedom / Ronald C. White Jr. -- Ballots over bullets : freedom and the 1864 election / David E. Long -- The Constitution, the amendment process, and the abolition of slavery / Herman Belz -- The Thirteenth Amendment enacted / Michael Vorenberg -- "That which Congress so nobly began" : the men who passed the Thirteenth Amendment resolution / Ron J. Keller -- The end of the beginning : Abraham Lincoln and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments / Frank J. Williams -- Picturing freedom : the Thirteenth Amendment in the graphic arts / Harold Holzer.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780809387533 (electronic bk.)




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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Relations with African Americans.


United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation.
United States. 13th Amendment Constitution. --History.


Slaves--Emancipation--United States.


United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.


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