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Final freedom

By Michael Vorenberg

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521652677, 9780521652674, 9780511040528
LCC
E453 .V67 2001
Open Library ID
OL6794489M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1505848 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
325\325
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
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Description

Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation. Michael Vorenberg tells the dramatic story of the creation of a constitutional amendment and argues that the crucial consideration of emancipation happened after, not before the Emancipation Proclamation; that the debate over final freedom was shaped by a level of volatility in party politics underestimated by previous historians, and that the abolition of slavery by constitutional amendment represented a novel method of reform that transformed attitudes toward the Constitution. Michael Vorenberg is an assistant professor of history at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a research assistant to David Herbert Donald for his prize-winning biography, Lincoln, and he is a contributor to the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Reader's Companion to the American Presidency. This is his first book.

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