Lincoln and freedom : slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment / / edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard ; foreword by Joan L. Flinspach.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:viii, 271 p. :; ill.
Notes:"Published in conjunction with the Lincoln Museum."
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Table of 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.