Lincoln, Congress, and emancipation / edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon.

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TextSeries: Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (vi, 270 pages) : illustrations, map, portraitsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780821445761
0821445766

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lincoln, Congress, and emancipation.DDC classification:

973.7092 23

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E457.2 .L823 2016eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed. Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural address, noting: 'I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.'"

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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"When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed. Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural address, noting: 'I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.'"

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