Lincoln's proclamation : emancipation reconsidered / edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blair, William Alan.

Younger, Karen Fisher.

Series:

Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era.

The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--Congresses.

Enslaved persons.

African Americans--Social conditions--19th century--Congresses.

African Americans.

Southern States--Social conditions--19th century--Congresses.

Southern States.

Border States (U.S. Civil War)--Social conditions--Congresses.

Border States (U.S. Civil War).

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

United States.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Views on slavery--Congresses.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Relations with African Americans--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Summary:

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president. Widely remembered as the document that ended slavery, the proclamation in fact freed slaves only in the rebellious South (and not in the Border States, where slavery remained legal) and, effectively, only in the parts of the South occupied by the Union. Questions persist regarding Lincoln's moral conviction and the extent to which the proclamation truly represented a radical stance on the issue of freedom. The eight distinguished contributors to this volume assess the procla

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Lincoln and the Preconditions for Emancipation: The Moral Grandeur of a Bill of Lading; Colonization and the Myth That Lincoln Prepared the People for Emancipation; Whatever Shall Appear to Be God's Will, I Will Do: The Chicago Initiative and Lincoln's Proclamation; But What Did the Slaves Think of Lincoln?; War, Gender, and Emancipation in the Civil War South; Abraham Lincoln's ''Fellow Citizens''-Before and After Emancipation; Slaves, Servants, and Soldiers: Uneven Paths to Freedom in the Border States, 1861-1865

Celebrating Freedom: The Problem of Emancipation in Public CommemorationContributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807895412

0807895415

OCLC:

642660992