Freedom national
Subtitle: the destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
By: James Oakes
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; W.W. Norton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 595
ISBN-13: 9780393065312
Subjects: United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln); Slavery; United States; Slaves; Emancipation; Antislavery movements; History
Other titles: Destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Description: Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South.  It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost a war to restore the Union and only gradually, when it became a military necessity, a war to end slavery.  These two aims -- "Liberty and Union, one and inseparable" -- were intertwined in Republican policy from the very start of the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Ultimate extinction"; title: "Disunion is abolition"; title: "Fulfillment of the prophecies"; title: August 8, 1861: emancipation begins; title: The border states; title: "Self-emancipation"; title: "By the act of Congress they are clearly free"; title: "A cordon of freedom"; title: The "preliminary" proclamation; title: The emancipation proclamation; title: "The system yet lives"; title: "Our fathers were mistaken".