Lincoln's Hundred Days : : The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union / / Louis P. Masur.
"The time has come now," Abraham Lincoln told his cabinet as he presented the preliminary draft of a "Proclamation of Emancipation." Lincoln's effort to end slavery has been controversial from its inception-when it was denounced by some as an unconstitutional usurpation and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 20 halftones in 2 b/w mock inserts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue September 22 , 1862 Lincoln Tells a Story
- The Path to the Preliminary Proclamation
- 1 Toward Emancipation
- 2 Messages and Measures
- 3 A New Departure
- 4 Movement
- One Hundred Days
- 5 Judgments
- 6 The Reactions of Scholars and Soldiers
- 7 Intervention and Election Fever
- 8 "We Cannot Escape History"
- 9 Standing Firm
- The Proclamation and Beyond
- 10 Jubilee
- 11 "Men of Color, To Arms!"
- 12 "It Can Not Be Retracted"
- 13 Emancipation Triumphant
- Epilogue April 4, 1865 Lincoln Visits Richmond
- Appendix
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index