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Vorenberg, Michael, 1964-
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United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation.
United States. Constitution. 13th Amendment.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
Constitutional history -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
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Final freedom : the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment / Michael Vorenberg.
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Vorenberg, Michael, 1964-
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Subjects
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation.
United States. Constitution. 13th Amendment.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century.
Constitutional history -- United States.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.
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0521652677 (hbk.) :
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Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
Description:
xviii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Slavery's Constitution : Constitution, slavery, and the coming of the Civil War ; Secession crisis : amending the Constitution to protect slavery ; Preserving the Constitution in the War for Emancipation -- Freedom's Constitution : Popular origins of universal emancipation ; Emancipation and reconstruction, Republicans and Democrats ; Presidential emancipation : Lincoln's Reconstruction Proclamation ; Congress responds : proposals for an abolition amendment ; Drafting of the thirteenth amendment -- Facing freedom : Legal theory and practical politics ; Democracy divided ; African Americans and the inadequacy of constitutional emancipation -- Debating freedom : Antislavery amendment and Republican unity ; Slavery, Union, and the meaning of the war ; Constitutional freedom and racial equality ; Unconstitutional constitutional amendment ; Dubious victory -- Key note of freedom : New party, a new amendment : the radical Democrats ; National Union Party and the amendment ; Race, reconstruction, and the Constitution : the changing context ; Party unity and presidential politics -- War within a war : emancipation and the election of 1864 : Parties dividing ; Peace feelers and peace fiascoes ; Retreat from Niagara ; Miscegenation and abolition ; State politics and abolition -- King's cure : New campaign for constitutional emancipation ; Lame ducks, lobbyists, and Lincoln ; Confronting constitutional failure ; Final vote -- Contested legacy of constitutional freedom : Meanings of freedom : the Union states and ratification ; Securing the union : the Confederate states and ratification ; Enacting the amendment : Congress and civil rights ; Legacies denied : the thirteenth amendment in the gilded age ; Legacies preserved : the thirteenth amendment in the 20th century -- Appendix : Votes on antislavery amendment.
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