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 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 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. 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
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2004
• EAN: 9780521543842
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54384-2
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies i
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous