Freedom National The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861 - 1865

Name: Freedom National The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861 - 1865
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ISBN: 9780393347753

ISBN-10: 0393347753

ISBN-13: 9780393347753

Edition: 2014

Authors: James Oakes

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Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost a war to restore the Union and only gradually, when it became a military necessity, a war to end slavery. These two aims--"Liberty and Union, one and inseparable"--were intertwined in Republican policy from the very start of the war. By summer 1861 the federal government invoked military authority to begin freeing slaves, immediately and without slaveholder compensation, as they fled to Union…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/6/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.23" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

James Oakes is the author of several acclaimed books on slavery and the Civil War. His most recent book, Freedom National, won the Lincoln Prize and was a long-list selection for the National Book Award. He lives in New York City.