Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery : The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crofts, Daniel W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political and social views.
United States. > Constitution. > 13th Amendment > History.
Slavery > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue. The bread pill
  • part I. The Antebellum context
  • 1. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution
  • 2. Antislavery politics and the problem of the Constitution
  • 3. The Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, and the problem of the Constitution
  • part II. Origins of the other Thirteenth Amendment
  • 4. Mutual misconceptions
  • 5. The Seward amendment
  • 6. The Corwin amendment
  • part III. Debating the other Thirteenth Amendment
  • 7. Reaching across the abyss
  • 8. The unfazed and the alarmed
  • 9. The amendment assessed
  • part IV. The abortive launch
  • 10. Congress acts
  • 11. The president speaks
  • 12. The ratification fizzle
  • Epilogue one. James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment
  • Epilogue two. John A. Bingham and the Fourteenth Amendment.

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