Cargando…
Lincoln and the politics of slavery : the other Thirteenth Amendment and the struggle to save the union /
In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "Great Emancipator." Lincoln always hated slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already existed, and he never imagined fighting...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
|
| Colección: | Civil War America (Series)
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : the bread pill
- The antebellum context. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution ; Antislavery politics and the problem of the constitution ; The Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, and the problem of the Constitution
- Origins of the other Thirteenth Amendment. Mutual misconceptions ; The Seward amendment ; The Corwin amendment
- Debating the other Thirteenth Amendment. Reaching across the abyss ; The unfazed and the alarmed ; The amendment assessed
- The abortive launch. Congress acts ; The president speaks ; The ratification fizzle
- Epilogue 1. James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment
- Epilogue 2. John A. Bingham and the Fourteenth Amendment.