Lincoln and emancipation /

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"In this succinct study, Edna Greene Medford examines the ideas and events that shaped President Lincoln's responses to slavery, following the arc of his ideological development from the beginning of the Civil War, when he aimed to pursue a course of noninterference, to his championing of...

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Main Author: Medford, Edna Greene
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2015.
Series:Concise Lincoln library.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Relations with African Americans.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political and social views.
1800-1899
Equality > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The Man and His Times
  • The 1860 Election and the Loss of Union
  • War, Union, and Slavery
  • Emancipation by Presidential Decree
  • To Know Freedom
  • Ending Slavery Forever
  • Epilogue.

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