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Freedom national: the destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

By James , Oakes

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2014
ISBN
9780393065312, 9780393089714, 9780393347753, 0393065316, 0393347753
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
8 MB (8757005 bytes)
Pages
xxiv, 595 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : i
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
1861-1865;Emancipation Proclamation (United StatesAntislavery movements;Antislavery movements--Unite

Description

"Ultimate extinction" -- "Disunion is abolition" -- "Fulfillment of the prophecies" -- August 8, 1861 : emancipation begins -- The Border States -- "Self-emancipation" -- "By the act of Congress they are clearly free" -- "A cordon of freedom" -- The "preliminary" proclamation -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- "The system yet lives" -- "Our fathers were mistaken" -- Was freedom enough?;Traces the history of emancipation and its impact on the Civil War, discussing how Lincoln and the Republicans fought primarily for freeing slaves throughout the war, not just as a secondary objective in an effort to restore the country.

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