The Emancipation Proclamation : a brief history with documents / Michael Vorenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vorenberg, Michael, 1964-

Series:

Bedford series in history and culture

The Bedford series in history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation.

United States.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--History--19th century--Sources.

Enslaved persons.

Politics and government.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

History.

United States--Politics and government--1861-1865--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xiv, 172 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2010]

Contents:

Part 1 The Making and Meaning of Emancipation

Slavery, Freedom, and the Coming of the Civil War

Making a War for Emancipation

The Promise of Emancipation

The Contested Memory of Emancipation

Part 2 The Documents

The Problem of Slavery at the Start of the Civil War

1 Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address, February 27, 1860

2 Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Lyman Trumbull, December 10, 1861

3 Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Alexander H. Stephens, December 22, 1861

4 Alexander H. Stephens, Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861

5 Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural, March 4, 1861

The Impact of the Civil War on Slavery

6 John J. Cheatham, Letter to L. P. Walker, May 4, 1861

7 Benjamin Butler, Letter to Winfield Scott, May 24, 1861

8 Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Orville Browning, September 22, 1861

9 The Pacific Appeal, Editorial on Emancipation, June 14, 1862

10 George B. McClellan, Harrison's Landing Letter, July 7, 1862

11 Samuel J. Kirkwood, Letter to Henry W. Halleck, August 5, 1862

Making the Emancipation Proclamation

12 Lydia Maria Child, Letter to John G. Whittier, January 21, 1862

13 Frederick Douglass, "The Slaveholders Rebellion," July 4, 1862

14 Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862

15 Abraham Lincoln, Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862

16 Benjamin R. Curtis, Executive Power, 1862

17 Grosvenor Lowrey, Commander-In-Chief, 1862

18 Edward D. Marchant, Abraham Lincoln, 1863

19 Adalbert Johann Volck, Writing the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863

20 Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862

21 Abraham Lincoln, Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863

22 The Pacific Appeal, "The Year of Jubilee Has Come!" January 3, 1863

23 "The Emancipation Proclamation," the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, January 3, 1863

24 James H. Hudson, Letter to the Pacific Appeal, February 25, 1863

25 Harper's Weekly, Sensation among "Our Colored Brethren," December 20, 1863

26 Thomas Nast, The Emancipation of the Negroes, January 24, 1863

African Americans and Military Service

27 H. Ford Douglas, Letter to Frederick Douglass, January 8, 1863

28 Frederick Douglass, "Men of Color, to Arms!," March 1863

29 Sattie A. Douglas, Letter to the Anglo-African, June 20, 1863

30 Hannah Johnson, Letter to Abraham Lincoln, July 31, 1863

31 Martha Glover, Letter to Richard Glover, December 30, 1863

32 Charlotte Forten, "Life on the Sea Islands," June 1864

33 George E. Stephens, "The Pay of Colored Troops," August 1, 1864

34 Spotswood Rice, Letter to Kitty Diggs, September 3, 1864

The Confederacy Considers Emancipation

35 Patrick R. Cleburne, Letter to the Commanders of the Army of the Tennessee, January 2, 1864

36 Congress of the Confederate States of America, "Address to the People of the Confederate States," January 22, 1864

37 Robert E. Lee, Letter to Andrew Hunter, January 11, 1864

38 Charleston Mercury, "Lunacy," January 13, 1865

39 Richmond Examiner, "Negro Troops," February 25, 1865

Reconstruction Begins

40 Harriet Jacobs, Letter to Lydia Maria Child, March 18, 1863

41 C. B. Wilder, Testimony before the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, May 9, 1863

42 Noyes Wheeler, "The Riotous Outbreak in New York," July 20, 1863

43 Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863

44 Annie Davis, Letter to Abraham Lincoln, August 25, 1864

45 Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural, March 4, 1864

46 Abraham Lincoln, Last Public Address, April 11, 1865

47 Edward D. Townsend, Report on Meeting of African Americans with Union Officials, January 12, 1865

48 Frederick Douglass, Speech in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, April 14, 1876

49 Thomas Ball, Freedmen's Memorial to Abraham Lincoln, 1876

50 Henry W. Herrick, Reading the Emancipation Proclamation in the Slaves' Cabin, 1864

Historians Assess Emancipation

51 James M. McPherson, "Who Freed the Slaves?," 1996

52 Ira Berlin, "Who Freed the Slaves?: Emancipation and Its Meaning".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780312435813

0312435819

OCLC:

540182660

Publisher Number:

99937294633