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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Slavery's Constitution | |
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| The Constitution, Slavery, and the Coming of the Civil War | |
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| The Secession Crisis: Amending the Constitution to Protect Slavery | |
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| Preserving the Constitution in the War for Emancipation | |
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| Freedom's Constitution | |
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| The Popular Origins of Universal Emancipation | |
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| Emancipation and Reconstruction, Republicans and Democrats | |
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| Presidential Emancipation: Lincoln's Reconstruction Proclamation | |
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| Congress Responds: Proposals for an Abolition Amendment | |
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| The Drafting of the Thirteenth Amendment | |
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| Facing Freedom | |
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| Legal Theory and Practical Politics | |
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| The Democracy Divided | |
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| African Americans and the Inadequacy of Constitutional Emancipation | |
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| Debating Freedom | |
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| The Antislavery Amendment and Republican Unity | |
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| Slavery, Union, and the Meaning of the War | |
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| Constitutional Freedom and Racial Equality | |
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| The Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment | |
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| Dubious Victory | |
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| The Key Note of Freedom | |
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| A New Party, a New Amendment: The Radical Democrats | |
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| The "National Union Party" and the Amendment | |
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| Race, Reconstruction, and the Constitution: The Changing Context | |
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| Party Unity and Presidential Politics | |
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| The War within a War: Emancipation and the Election of 1864 | |
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| The Parties Dividing | |
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| Peace Feelers and Peace Fiascoes | |
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| The Retreat from Niagara | |
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| Miscegenation and Abolition | |
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| State Politics and Abolition | |
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| A King's Cure | |
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| The New Campaign for Constitutional Emancipation | |
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| Lame Ducks, Lobbyists, and Lincoln | |
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| Confronting Constitutional Failure | |
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| The Final Vote | |
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| The Contested Legacy of Constitutional Freedom | |
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| The Meanings of Freedom: The Union States and Ratification | |
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| Securing the Union: The Confederate States and Ratification | |
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| Enacting the Amendment: Congress and Civil Rights | |
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| Legacies Denied: The Thirteenth Amendment in the Gilded Age | |
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| Legacies Preserved: The Thirteenth Amendment in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Votes on Antislavery Amendment | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |