The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

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Vorenberg, Michael

 
9780312435813: The Emancipation Proclamation: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312435819 ISBN 13: 9780312435813
Verlag: Bedford, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Within months of Lincoln’s 1860 election, the Confederate states seceded and the Civil War began. In his inaugural address Lincoln vowed not to interfere with slavery and even endorsed a constitutional amendment to protect it. Yet two years later Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in the rebellious states, transforming the goals of the war, and setting the stage for national emancipation. In this volume, Michael Vorenberg reveals the complexity of the process by which African-Americans gained freedom and explores the struggle over its meaning. The introduction summarizes the history and national debate over slavery from the country’s founding through the Civil War and beyond, and more than 40 documents and images give voice to the range of actors who participated in this vital drama. In addition, essays by contemporary historians Ira Berlin and James McPherson argue the question of who freed the slaves.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

MICHAEL VORENBERG (Ph.D., Harvard University) is associate professor of history at Brown University, UK, where he teaches courses on antebellum America, the Civil War and reconstruction, race and law, and American legal and constitution history. Vorenberg's research interests lie at the intersection of three fields in American history: the Civil War era, legal and constitution history, and race and emancipation. He is author of Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment (2001), a finalist for the Lincoln Prize in 2002, as well as numerous essays and articles on topics ranging from Lincoln's plans for the colonization of African Americans to the meaning of rights and privileges under the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Verlag
Bedford
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312435819
ISBN 13 
9780312435813
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1
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