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Item Details
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LINCOLN AND EMANCIPATION
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| By: |
Edna Greene Medford |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£25.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0809333635 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780809333639 |
| Publisher: |
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 May, 2015 |
| Series: |
Concise Lincoln Library |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Synopsis: |
In this succinct study, Edna Greene Med-ford examines the ideas and events that shaped President Lincoln's responses to slavery, following the arc of his ideo-logical development from the beginning of the Civil War, when he aimed to pur-sue a course of noninterference, to his championing of slavery's destruction before the conflict ended. Throughout, Medford juxtaposes the president's mo-tivations for advocating freedom with the aspirations of African Americans, restoring African Americans to the cen-ter of the story about the struggle for their own liberation. Lincoln and African Americans, Medford argues, approached emanci-pation differently, with the president moving slowly and cautiously in order to save the Union, while the enslaved and their supporters pressed more ur-gently for an end to slavery. Despite their differences, an undeclared part-nership existed between the president and the enslaved that led to both pres-ervation of the Union and freedom for those in bondage.While Lincoln re-mains central to the story, the author argues that many players-including the abolitionists and Radical Republi-cans, War Democrats, and black men and women-participated in the drama through agitation, military support of the Union, and destruction of the insti-tution from within. By including African American voices in the emancipation narrative, this insightful volume offers a fresh and welcome perspective on Lincoln's America. |
| Illustrations: |
4 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Southern Illinois University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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