Format:
vi, 270 pages
,
Diagramme, Illustrationen, Karten, Porträts
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780821422274
,
9780821422281
Series Statement:
Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877
Content:
Introduction: freedom, finally / Paul Finkelman -- Legislators and peoples: emancipations in comparative perspective / Seymour Drescher -- The ranchero spotty: an 1848 perspective on Abraham Lincoln's congressional term / Amy S. Greenberg -- "Disunion...is abolition" / James Oakes -- Lincoln, secession, and emancipation / Orville Vernon Burton -- Stevens, Sumner, and the journey to full emancipation / Beverly Wilson Palmer -- Frederick Douglass and the complications of emancipation / L. Diane Barnes -- Abraham Lincoln: reluctant emancipator? / Michael Burlingame -- The road to freedom: how a railroad lawyer became the great emancipator / Paul Finkelman -- Double take: abolition and the size of transferred property rights / Jenny Bourne -- Mr. Spielberg goes to Washington / Matthew Pinsker
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821445761
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865
;
USA
;
USA Congress
;
Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Emanzipationserklärung
;
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