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The Emancipation Proclamation - A Brief History with Documents (Paperback, 1st Ed. 2010)
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The Emancipation Proclamation - A Brief History with Documents (Paperback, 1st Ed. 2010)
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Within months of Lincoln's 1860 election, the Confederate states
seceded and the Civil War began. In his inaugural address Lincoln
vowed not to interfere with slavery and even endorsed a
constitutional amendment to protect it. Yet two years later Lincoln
signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the
rebellious states, transforming the goals of the war, and setting
the stage for national emancipation. In this volume Michael
Vorenberg reveals the complexity of the process by which
African-Americans gained freedom and explores the struggle over its
meaning. The introduction summarizes the history and national
debate over slavery from the country's founding through the Civil
War and beyond, and more than 40 documents and images give voice to
the range of actors who participated in this vital drama -- Lincoln
and Douglass, slaves and slaveholders, black and white men and
women working for abolition, and northern and southern
editorialists. In addition, essays by contemporary historians Ira
Berlin and James McPherson argue the question of who freed the
slaves. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for
consideration, and a selected bibliography encourage student
learning.
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