Lincoln's proclamation
Subtitle: emancipation reconsidered
By: edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger.
Contributors: Blair, William Alan.; Younger, Karen Fisher.
Series: The Steven and Janice Brose lectures in the Civil War era
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780807833162
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery -- Congresses; Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Relations with African Americans -- Congresses; United States. -- President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). -- Congresses; Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- Congresses; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Congresses; Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Congresses; Border States (U.S. Civil War) -- Social conditions -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: "This collection arose from a symposium on the Emancipation Proclamation held at the Pennsylvania State University in April 2007 as part of the Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lincoln and the preconditions for emancipation : the moral grandeur of a bill of lading / Paul Finkelman; title: Colonization and the myth that Lincoln prepared the people for emancipation / Mark E. Neely Jr; title: Whatever shall appear to be God's will, I will do : the Chicago initiative and Lincoln's proclamation / Richard Carwardine; title: But what did the slaves think of Lincoln? / Steven Hahn; title: War, gender, and emancipation in the Civil War South / Stephanie McCurry; title: Abraham Lincoln's "fellow citizens"; title: before and after emancipation / Michael Vorenberg; title: Slaves, servants, and soldiers : uneven paths to freedom in the Border States, 1861-1865 / Louis Gerteis; title: Celebrating freedom : the problem of emancipation in public commemoration / William A. Blair.