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Lincoln, Congress, and emancipation /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: freedom, finally / Paul Finkelman
- Legislators and peoples: emancipations in comparative perspective / Seymour Drescher
- The ranchero spotty: an 1848 perspective on Abraham Lincoln's congressional term / Amy S. Greenberg
- "Disunion ... is abolition" / James Oakes
- Lincoln, secession, and emancipation / Orville Vernon Burton
- Stevens, Sumner, and the journey to full emancipation / Beverly Wilson Palmer
- Frederick Douglass and the complications of emancipation / L. Diane Barnes
- Abraham Lincoln: reluctant emancipator? / Michael Burlingame
- The road to freedom: how a railroad lawyer became the great emancipator / Paul Finkelman
- Double take: abolition and the size of transferred property rights / Jenny Bourne
- Mr. Spielberg goes to Washington / Matthew Pinsker.