Final Freedom - The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment

Informationen zum Autor Michael Vorenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. Klappentext Focusing on the Thirteenth Amendment! this book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment! Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers! politicians! and ordinary Americans to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Slavery's constitution; 2. Freedom's constitution; 3. Facing freedom; 4. Debating freedom; 5. The key note of freedom; 6. The war within a war: emancipation and the election of 1864; 7. A King's cure; 8. The contested legacy of constitutional freedom; Appendix: votes on antislavery amendment; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Vorenberg, Michael (Brown University Vorenberg
• Assisted by: Christopher Tomlins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2001
• EAN: 9780521652674
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65267-4
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous