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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| The Making and Meaning of Emancipation | |
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| Slavery, Freedom, and the Coming of the Civil War | |
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| Making a War for Emancipation | |
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| The Promise of Emancipation | |
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| The Contested Memory of Emancipation | |
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| The Documents | |
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| The Problem of Slavery at the Start of the Civil War | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address, February 27, 1860 | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Lyman Trumbull, December 10, 1861 | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Alexander H. Stephens, December 22, 1861 | |
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| Alexander H. Stephens, Cornerstone Speech, March 21, 1861 | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural, March 4, 1861 | |
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| The Impact of the Civil War on Slavery | |
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| John J. Cheatham, Letter to L. P. Walker, May 4, 1861 | |
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| Benjamin Butler, Letter to Winfield Scott, May 24, 1861 | |
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| Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Orville Browning, September 22, 1861 | |
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| The Pacific Appeal, Editorial on Emancipation, June 14, 1862 | |
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| George B. McClellan, Harrison���s Landing Letter, July 7, 186 | |