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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 | |