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

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

Vorenberg, Michael

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Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society

19th Century United States HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 0521543843
ISBN13: 9780521543842
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jul 26 2004
Pages: 305
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
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.

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