Michael Vorenberg

Final Freedom (eBook, PDF)

The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation. The book tells the dramatic story of the creation of a constitutional amendment and reveals an unprecedented transformation in American race relations, politics, and constitutional thought. Using a wide array of archival and published sources, Professor Vorenberg argues that the crucial consideration of emancipation occurred after, not before, the Emancipation Proclamation; that the debate over final freedom was shaped by a level of volatility in party politics underestimated by prior historians; and that the abolition of slavery by constitutional amendment represented a novel method of reform that transformed attitudes toward the Constitution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511033063
• Artikelnr.: 38191919

Autorenporträt

Michael Vorenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Slavery's constitution
2. Freedom's constitution
3. Facing freedom
4. Debating freedom
5. The key note of freedom
6. The war within a war: emancipation and the election of 1864
7. A King's cure
8. The contested legacy of constitutional freedom
Appendix: votes on antislavery amendment
Bibliography
Index.