Who freed the slaves? : the fight over the Thirteenth Amendment / Leonard L. Richards.
Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]Description: x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226178202 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 022617820X (cloth : alk. paper)
- United States. Constitution. 13th Amendment -- History
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Ashley, James Mitchell, 1824-1896
- United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation
- Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- 342.7308/7 23
- KF4545.S5 R53 2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-295) and index.
Prologue: Wednesday, June 15, 1864 -- The old order and its defenders -- Lincoln and emancipation -- To a white and black man's war -- The odd couple -- Hostility of the northern democracy -- The lame ducks of 1864 -- The enforcement clause and its enemies -- Epilogue: Emancipation Day, 1893.
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