Lincoln's Hundred Days : : the Emancipation Proclamation and the war for the Union

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Prologue, September 22, 1862: Lincoln Tells a Story -- The path to the preliminary proclamation -- Toward Emancipation -- Messages and Measures -- A New Departure -- Movement -- One hundred days -- Judgments -- The Reactions of Scholars and Soldiers -- Intervention and Election Fever -- "We Cannot Escape History" -- Standing Firm -- The proclamation and beyond -- Jubilee -- "Men of Color, To Arms!" -- "It Can Not Be Retracted" -- Emancipation Triumphant -- Epilogue, April 4, 1865: Lincoln Visits Richmond.

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PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 358 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780674066908
0674066901

SUBJECTS
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery.
United States. -- President (1861-1865 : Lincoln).
Enslaved people -- Emancipation.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865.