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Freedom's delay : America's struggle for emancipation, 1776-1865 /
The Declaration of Independence proclaimed freedom for Americans from the domination of Great Britain, yet for millions of African Americas caught up in a brutal system of racially based slavery, freedom would be denied for ninety additional years until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Slavery and Revolution: Truths Not So Self-Evident
- 2. Slavery and the Constitution: Freedom Compromised
- 3. Stumbling Forward: Emancipation Proceeds in New England and Pennsylvania
- 4. Forward to the Past: The South's "Cavalier Kingdom"
- 5. Arithmetic of Emancipation: From the Purchase of Louisiana to the Compromise over Missouri
- 6. Sunset of Northern Slavery: Freedom without Equality
- 7. Wolf by the Ear: Slave Resistance, White Reaction, and the Growing Abolitionist Movement
- 8. Freedom's Faith: Slavery Sectionalizes the Sacred
- 9. Slavery and Manifest Division: The Mexican Cession, Free Soilers, and the Compromise of 1850
- 10. Rushing toward Disunion: Slavery and the Factious 1850s
- 11. Presidential Politics and the War for Slavery: The Southern Decision to Secede
- 12. Thenceforward, and Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation
- 13. Slavery's Death Throes: Emancipation during the Civil War
- 14. Union Victory and the Thirteenth Amendment: Free at Last?