UID:
almafu_9959240451202883
Format:
1 online resource (248 p.)
ISBN:
0-8078-9541-5
Series Statement:
The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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Celebrating Freedom: The Problem of Emancipation in Public CommemorationContributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3316-9
Language:
English
