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  title info:
    title: Final freedom
    sub title: the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment
  name:
    name part: Vorenberg, Michael
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: NetLibrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: xviii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Slavery's Constitution : Constitution, slavery, and the coming of the Civil War ; Secession crisis : amending the Constitution to protect slavery ; Preserving the Constitution in the War for Emancipation -- Freedom's Constitution : Popular origins of universal emancipation ; Emancipation and reconstruction, Republicans and Democrats ; Presidential emancipation : Lincoln's Reconstruction Proclamation ; Congress responds : proposals for an abolition amendment ; Drafting of the thirteenth amendment -- Facing freedom : Legal theory and practical politics ; Democracy divided ; African Americans and the inadequacy of constitutional emancipation -- Debating freedom : Antislavery amendment and Republican unity ; Slavery, Union, and the meaning of the war ; Constitutional freedom and racial equality ; Unconstitutional constitutional amendment ; Dubious victory -- Key note of freedom : New party, a new amendment : the radical Democrats ; National Union Party and the amendment ; Race, reconstruction, and the Constitution : the changing context ; Party unity and presidential politics -- War within a war : emancipation and the election of 1864 : Parties dividing ; Peace feelers and peace fiascoes ; Retreat from Niagara ; Miscegenation and abolition ; State politics and abolition -- King's cure : New campaign for constitutional emancipation ; Lame ducks, lobbyists, and Lincoln ; Confronting constitutional failure ; Final vote -- Contested legacy of constitutional freedom : Meanings of freedom : the Union states and ratification ; Securing the union : the Confederate states and ratification ; Enacting the amendment : Congress and civil rights ; Legacies denied : the thirteenth amendment in the gilded age ; Legacies preserved : the thirteenth amendment in the 20th century -- Appendix : Votes on antislavery amendment.
  note: Michael Vorenberg.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-296) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: President (1861-1865 : Lincoln).
  subject:
    topic: Slaves
    topic: Emancipation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Civil rights
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Civil War, 1861-1865
    topic: African Americans
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1861-1865
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: 13th Amendment.
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional history
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
  classification: E453 .V67 2001eb
  classification: 973.7/14
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 00063028
    identifier: (OCoLC)44860844
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge historical studies in American law and society
  identifier: 0511040520 (electronic bk.)
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    location:
      url: https://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 040817
    record change date: 20220105142510.0
    record identifier: in00002036450