Research Catalog

Title

Lincoln and freedom : slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment / edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard.

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Holzer, Harold.
• Gabbard, Sara Vaughn.
• Lincoln Museum (Fort Wayne, Ind.)

Description

viii, 271 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• United States > President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) > Emancipation Proclamation
• United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865
• Slaves > Emancipation > United States
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Relations with African Americans
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Political and social views
• United States Constitution 13th Amendment > History

Note

• "Published in conjunction with the Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Joan L. Flinspach -- Introduction / Harold Holzer -- Slavery during Lincoln's lifetime / James Oliver Horton -- Lincoln's critique of Dred Scott as a vindication of the Founding / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Lincoln and the limits of constitutional authority / Phillip Shaw Paludan -- Lincoln, God, and freedom : a promise fulfilled / Lucas E. Morel -- "Sublime in its magnitude" : the Emancipation Proclamation / Allen C. Guelzo -- Lincoln's summer of emancipation / Matthew Pinsker -- The role of the press / Hans L. Trefousse -- Marching to freedom : the U.S. Colored Troops / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln and the rhetoric of freedom / Ronald C. White Jr. -- Ballots over bullets : freedom and the 1864 election / David E. Long -- The Constitution, the amendment process, and the abolition of slavery / Herman Belz -- The Thirteenth Amendment enacted / Michael Vorenberg -- "That which Congress so nobly began" : the men who passed the Thirteenth Amendment resolution / Ron J. Keller -- The end of the beginning : Abraham Lincoln and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments / Frank J. Williams -- Picturing freedom : the Thirteenth Amendment in the graphic arts / Harold Holzer.

Call Number

IKA 08-1689

ISBN

• 9780809327645 (alk. paper)
• 0809327643 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006100373

OCLC

77116735

Title

Lincoln and freedom : slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment / edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard.

Imprint

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Holzer, Harold.

Gabbard, Sara Vaughn.

Lincoln Museum (Fort Wayne, Ind.)

Research Call Number

IKA 08-1689

Sc E 08-1246