Final freedom : the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment / Michael Vorenberg.

This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final 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 slave...

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Main Author: Vorenberg, Michael, 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
Subjects:
United States. > President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). > Emancipation Proclamation.
United States. > Constitution. > 13th Amendment.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
Constitutional history > United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511691
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