Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment
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In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have been limited--freeing only slaves within Confederate states who were able to make their way to Union lines--but it is nonetheless generally seen as the key moment, with Lincoln's leadership setting into motion a train of inevitable events that culminated in the passage of an outright ban: the Thirteenth Amendment...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:022617820X
ISBN13:9780226178202
Release Date:April 2015
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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