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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chains That Bind | |
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| Slave Shackles Intended for a Child, ca. 1800 | |
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| The Human Face of Slavery | |
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| Daguerreotype of Caesar: A Slave, ca. 1850 | |
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| Old Kentucky Home | |
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| Negro Life at the South, Painting by Eastman Johnson, 1859 | |
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| For Sale to the Highest Bidder | |
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| The Slave Auction, Sculpture by John Rogers, 1859 | |
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| Weapon of Last Resort | |
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| "John Brown" Pike, ca. 1857-1859 | |
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| John Brown's Body | |
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| John Brown's Blessing, Painting by Thomas Satterwhite Noble, 1867 | |
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| The Animal Himself | |
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| Right Hand of Abraham Lincoln, Cast by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1886, from 1860 Original by Leonard Wells Volk | |
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| Secession, New York Style | |
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| To the People of Louisiana, their Executive and Representatives Greeting, Broadside, January 29, 1861 | |
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| Where the Civil War Began | |
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| South-Western Angle of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, S.C., April 15, 1861, Photographic Print by Alma A. Pelot | |
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| "Flagmania" | |
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| Flag, 1861 | |
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| The Palmetto and the Snake | |
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| Confederate Palmetto Flag, 1861 | |
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| To Arms! | |
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| A Great Rush to Join the 36th Regiment, New York Volunteers, Woodcut, ca. 1862 | |
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| Uniform Courage | |
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| Zouave Uniform, ca. 1861-1863 | |
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| Divided Loyalties | |
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| Letter from Howard Gushing Wright to His Mother, 1861 | |
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| Blarney from Bull Run? | |
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| Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War, Painting by Louis Lang, 1862-1863 | |
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| "Reuniting" a Shattered Family | |
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| The Lincoln Family in 1861, Painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, ca. 1865 | |
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| Distant Drums | |
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| Snare Drum, ca. 1860-1865 | |
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| Thoughts of the Future-but Where? | |
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| Thoughts of the Future, Painting by Edwin White, 1861 | |
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| There's Something in It | |
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| Half Model of the USS Monitor, 1862 | |
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| Key to Confederate Victory? | |
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| Cipher Key, ca. 1861 | |
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| Hidden Glory | |
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| An Episode of the War-the Cavalry Charge of Lt. Henry B. Hidden, Painting by Victor Nehlig, 1862 | |
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| A Diarist in Action | |
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| Diary of William Rothert, 1861-1862 | |
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| Tailor-Made Souvenirs of Battle | |
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| Military Buttons Mounted on Card, 1860-1864 | |
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| An Early Call to Recruit Black Troops | |
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| Petition to Abraham Lincoln for Recruitment of Black Troops, 1862 | |
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| If My Name Ever Goes into History, It Will Be for This Act | |
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| By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln, 1863 | |
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| A Dentist Drills Lincoln | |
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| Writing the Emancipation Proclamation, Etching by Adalbert Johann Volck, 1863 | |
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| Frederick Douglass's Call to Arms | |
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| Men of Color, to Arms! | |
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| Broadside by Frederick Douglass, 1863 | |
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| Suffered Severely and Behaved Well | |
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| Emily J. Semmes to Paul Jones Semmes, Letter, June 1, 1863 | |
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| Emancipated by War | |
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| Arrival at Chickasaw Bayou of Jefferson Davis' Negroes from His Plantation on the Mississippi Below Vicksburg, Mississippi, Drawing by Frederick B. Schell, ca. 1863 | |
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| Wallpaper News for Cave Dwellers | |
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| The Daily Citizen, Newsprint on Wallpaper, 1863 | |
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| Wheel of Misfortune | |
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| Draft Wheel, ca. 1863 | |
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| Charred Survivor of an Urban Riot | |
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| Bible Used at Colored Orphan Asylum, ca. 1863 | |
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| Traveling Light | |
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| Footlocker with Belongings, 1860-1890 | |
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| Learning to Read, Dixie Style | |
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| The First Dixie Reader, 1864 | |
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| An Ovation-and a Banner-for Black Troops | |
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| Presentation Address of the Ladies of the City of New York to the Officers and Men of the Twentieth United States Colored Troops, 1864 | |
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| A Modern Major General | |
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| Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885), Painting by James Reid Lambdin, 1868 | |
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| All's Fair | |
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| Entry Ticket for the New York Metropolitan Fair, 1864 | |
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| The Faces of War | |
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| Photograph Album Presented to Major M. S. Euen by Co. C, P.P., 1860-1869 | |
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| Strong Opinions | |
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| Entries from the Diary of George Templeton Strong, 1864 | |
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| Prison Art | |
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| Point Lookout Sketches, Watercolor Drawings, 1864 | |
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| Tribute from a Bad Man? | |
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| Colored Troops Before Richmond, Engraved Silver, 1864-1865 | |
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| Political Dirty Tricks | |
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| The Miscegenation Ball, Lithograph, 1864 | |
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| Lincoln's Worst Mistake? | |
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| Campaign Flag, 1864 | |
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| Counting Votes, Lincoln's Way | |
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| Projection of November 1864 Election, Abraham Lincoln, 1864 | |
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| Publish or Perish? | |
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| Prison Times, Newspaper, 1865 | |
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| The Draft That Really Ended the War | |
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| Terms of Surrender, April 9, 1865, Ulysses S. Grant | |
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| Bloody Good Friday | |
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| Letter from Clara Harris to Mary, April 25, 1865 | |
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| A Sprig from Lincoln's Bier | |
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| Framed Leaves from Abraham Lincoln's Bier, 1865 | |
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| A Helping Hand for the Wounded Veteran | |
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| Autograph Letter from Joe W. Mersereau to William Oland Bourne, 1865 | |
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| It Winds the Whole Thing Up | |
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| The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Manuscript, 1865 | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| List of Objects | |
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| Index | |