Lincoln, Congress, and emancipation / edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.
Other Authors: Finkelman, Paul, 1949- (Editor)
Kennon, Donald R., 1948- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Athens : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, [2016]
Series:Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Slavery.
United States. > President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). > Emancipation Proclamation.
United States. > Constitution. > 13th Amendment > History.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Influence.
Constitution (United States)
Emancipation Proclamation (United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln))
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Politics and government.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
United States.
1861-1865
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:vi, 270 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.