Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0807833169 ISBN 13: 9780807833162

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

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This volume offers a useful look at how modern historians deal with emancipation.--Louisiana History Common themes emerge within this complex interweaving of subject matter and interests. . . . Represents the best of current scholarship on Abraham Lincoln.--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Provides an excellent history of the proclamation.--The Federal Lawyer This volume presents carefully constructed analyses of new issues, refreshing contributions to old debates, and a basic initiation into emancipation scholarship. Scholars looking for new approaches to the diverse literature on Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation would be wise to start their reading with this book." --The Journal of Southern History

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This book helps you understand the effects of the most famous wartime document in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president. Widely remembered as the document that ended slavery, the proclamation in fact freed slaves only in the rebellious South (and not in the Border States, where slavery remained legal) and, effectively, only in the parts of the South occupied by the Union. Questions persist regarding Lincoln's moral conviction and the extent to which the proclamation truly represented a radical stance on the issue of freedom. The eight distinguished contributors to this volume assess the proclamation by considering not only aspects of the president's decision making, but also events beyond Washington. The proclamation provides a launching point for new insights on the consequences and legacies of freedom, the engagement of black Americans in their liberation, and the issues of citizenship and rights that were not decided by Lincoln's document. Together the essays portray emancipation as a product of many hands, best understood by considering all the various actors, the place, and the time.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0807833169
• ISBN 13: 9780807833162
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Younger Karen Fisher