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Lincoln, Congress, and emancipation
Title
Lincoln, Congress, and emancipation / edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon.
ISBN
9780821422274
0821422278
9780821422281
0821422286
9780821445761
Publication
Athens : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, [2016]
Physical Description
vi, 270 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2017
Series
Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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