Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth AmendmentFinal Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation. Michael Vorenberg tells the dramatic story of the creation of a constitutional amendment and argues that the crucial consideration of emancipation happened after, not before the Emancipation Proclamation; that the debate over final freedom was shaped by a level of volatility in party politics underestimated by previous historians, and that the abolition of slavery by constitutional amendment represented a novel method of reform that transformed attitudes toward the Constitution. Michael Vorenberg is an assistant professor of history at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a research assistant to David Herbert Donald for his prize-winning biography, Lincoln, and he is a contributor to the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Reader's Companion to the American Presidency. This is his first book. |
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Contents
V | 8 |
VI | 9 |
VII | 18 |
VIII | 23 |
IX | 36 |
XI | 41 |
XII | 46 |
XIII | 48 |
XXVIII | 127 |
XXIX | 136 |
XXX | 141 |
XXXII | 142 |
XXXIII | 146 |
XXXIV | 152 |
XXXV | 160 |
XXXVI | 167 |
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| Title | Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society |
| Author | Michael Vorenberg |
| Editor | Christopher Tomlins |
| Contributors | Christopher Tomlins, C. Cullen, Joseph Needham |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0521652677, 9780521652674 |
| Length | 305 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) History / Modern / General History / United States / 19th Century History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) History / United States / General Law / General Social Science / Slavery |
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