Lincoln and freedom : slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment / edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Lincoln Museum (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
Other Authors: Holzer, Harold
Gabbard, Sara Vaughn
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
African Americans.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865. > Emancipation Proclamation.
United States. > Constitution. > 13th Amendment > History.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
Physical Description:viii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.