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  • Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Rebelliousness and Docility in the Negro Slave: A Critique of the Elkins Thesis; The Gerrit Smith Circle: Abolitionism in the Burned-Over District; The Liberty Party in Massachusetts, 1840-1848: Antislavery Third Party Politics in the Bay State; Only His Stepchildren: Lincoln and the Negro; Emancipation in the Federal City; Circumventing the Dred Scott Decision: Edward Bates, Salmon P. Chase, and the Citizenship of African Americans; Defending Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling Letter, 1863.
  • Lincoln and Equal Rights for Negroes: The Irrelevancy of the "Wadsworth Letter"Lincoln and Equal Rights: A Reply; Abraham Lincoln and Black Colonization: Benjamin Butler's Spurious Testimony; Fort Pillow Revisited: New Evidence about an Old Controversy; Frederick Douglass and the American Apocalypse; "The Doom of Slavery": Ulysses S. Grant, War Aims, and Emancipation, 1861-1863; "I Do Not Suppose That Uncle Sam Looks at the Skin": African Americans and the Civil War Pension System, 1865-1934; "Shoulder to Shoulder as Comrades Tried": Black and White Union Veterans and Civil War Memory.
  • Slavery, Emancipation, and Veterans of the Union Cause: Commemorating Freedom in the Era of Reconciliation, 1885-1915List of Contributors; Index.