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Author Oakes, James.

Title Freedom national : the destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 / James Oakes.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2013.

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Edition First edition.
Description xxiv, 595 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents "Ultimate extinction" -- "Disunion is abolition" -- "Fulfillment of the prophecies" -- August 8, 1861: emancipation begins -- The border states -- "Self-emancipation" -- "By the act of Congress they are clearly free" -- "A cordon of freedom" -- The "preliminary" proclamation -- The emancipation proclamation -- "The system yet lives" -- "Our fathers were mistaken".
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [495]-554) and index.
Subject Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
Added Title Destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
ISBN 9780393065312 hardcover $29.95
0393065316 hardcover
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