Abraham Lincoln and a new birth of freedom : the Union and slavery in the diplomacy of the Civil War /
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Lincoln :
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Table of Contents:
- ch. 1. Lincoln on slavery: a constitutional right and a moral wrong
- ch. 2. Lincoln, slavery, and perpetual union
- ch. 3. Southern slavery, northern freedom: the central dilemma of the Republic
- ch. 4. Emancipation by the sword? race war and Antietam as catalysts to intervention
- ch. 5. "Days of grace": emancipation the prelude to foreign intervention?
- ch. 6. Autumn of discontent: the crisis over intervention
- ch. 7. Emancipation Proclamation: an act of justice, warranted by military necessity
- ch. 8. Final impact of slavery on intervention: Napoleon's grand design for the Americas
- Epilogue: to create a more perfect union.
