Abraham Lincoln and a new birth of freedom
Subtitle: the Union and slavery in the diplomacy of the Civil War
By: Howard Jones.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States; Intervention (International law) -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1861-1865; United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- France; France -- Foreign relations -- United States
Description: No one has fully examined Lincoln's impact on Civil War diplomacy, particularly as it derived from his constantly evolving views toward slavery and the way these ideas fitted into his concept of the Union. In 1945 Jay Monaghan published his classic work, A Diplomat in Carpet Slippers: Abraham Lincoln Deals with Foreign Affairs, but it rested almost entirely on American sources and reflected both a Union and a Lincoln bias. Moreover, Monaghan brought insufficient focus to Lincoln's efforts to tie antislavery to the creation of a better Union. This gap in the historiography of the period provides the rationale for this book. - Prologue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : To preserve the Union; title: Lincoln on slavery : a constitutional right and a moral wrong; title: Lincoln, slavery, and perpetual union; title: Southern slavery, northern freedom : the central dilemma of the Republic; title: Emancipation by the sword? Race war and Antietam as catalysts to intervention; title: "Days of grace" : emancipation the prelude to foreign intervention?; title: Autumn of discontent : the crisis over intervention; title: Emancipation Proclamation : an act of justice, warranted by military necessity; title: Final impact of slavery on intervention : Napoleon's grand design for the Americas; title: Epilogue : To create a more perfect union