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Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation (Paperback)
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Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801-1877
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"When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government
had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed.
Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural
address, noting: 'I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to
interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it
exists.'" How, then, asks Paul Finkelman in the introduction to
Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation, did Lincoln-who personally
hated slavery-lead the nation through the Civil War to January
1865, when Congress passed the constitutional amendment that ended
slavery outright? The essays in this book examine the route Lincoln
took to achieve emancipation, and how it is remembered both in the
United States and abroad. The ten contributors-all on the cutting
edge of contemporary scholarship on Lincoln and the Civil War-push
our understanding of this watershed moment in US history in new
directions. They present wide-ranging contributions to Lincoln
studies, including a parsing of the sixteenth president's career in
Congress in the 1840s and a brilliant critique of the historical
choices made by Stephen Spielberg and writer Tony Kushner in the
movie Lincoln, about the passage of the thirteenth amendment. As a
whole, these classroom-ready readings provide fresh and essential
perspectives on Lincoln's deft navigation of constitutional and
political circumstances to move emancipation forward.
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