Descript |
xxi, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
Content |
text |
Media |
unmediated |
Carrier |
volume |
Edition |
1st ed. |
Note |
Milne Collection |
Contents |
"I am naturally anti-slavery" : young Abraham Lincoln and slavery -- "Always a Whig" : Lincoln, the law, and the second party system -- "The monstrous injustice" : becoming a republican -- "A house divided" : slavery and race in the late 1850s -- "The only substantial difference" : secession and Civil War -- "I must have Kentucky" : the border strategy -- "Forever free" : the coming of emancipation -- "A new birth of freedom" : securing emancipation -- "A fitting, and necessary conclusion" : abolition, reelection, and the challenge of reconstruction -- "Every drop of blood" : the meaning of the war. |
ISBN |
9780393340662 (pbk.) |
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039334066X (pbk.) |
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9780393340662 (pbk.) |
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039334066X (pbk.) |
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0393066185 |
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9780393066180 (cased) |
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