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vi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Introduction: Freedom, finally / Paul Finkelman -- Legislators and peoples: emancipations in comparative perspective / Seymour Drescher -- The ranchero spotty: an 1848 perspective on Abraham Lincoln's congressional term / Amy S. Greenberg -- "Disunion...is abolition" / James Oakes -- Lincoln, secession, and emancipation / Orville Vernon Burton -- Stevens, Sumner, and the journey to full emancipation / Beverly Wilson Palmer -- Frederick Douglass and the complications of emancipation / L. Diane Barnes -- Abraham Lincoln: reluctant emancipator? / Michael Burlingame -- The road to freedom: how a railroad lawyer became the great emancipator / Paul Finkelman -- Double take: abolition and the size of transferred property rights / Jenny Bourne -- Mr. Spielberg goes to Washington / Matthew Pinsker. |
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9780821422274 hardback |
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9780821422281 paperback |
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