Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment

Contents

v Contents Foreword vii Joan L. Flinspach Introduction 1 Harold Holzer 1. Slavery during Lincoln’s Lifetime 7 James Oliver Horton 2. Lincoln’s Critique of Dred Scott as a Vindication of the Founding 20 Joseph R. Fornieri 3. Lincoln and the Limits of Constitutional Authority 37 Phillip Shaw Paludan 4. Lincoln, God, and Freedom: A Promise Fulfilled 48 Lucas E. Morel 5. “Sublime in Its Magnitude”: The Emancipation Proclamation 65 Allen C. Guelzo 6. Lincoln’s Summer of Emancipation 79 Matthew Pinsker 7. The Role of the Press 100 Hans L. Trefousse 8. Marching to Freedom: The U.S. Colored Troops 113 John F. Marszalek 9. Lincoln and the Rhetoric of Freedom 130 Ronald C. White Jr. 10. Ballots over Bullets: Freedom and the 1864 Election 143 David E. Long contents vi 11. The Constitution, the Amendment Process, and the Abolition of Slavery 160 Herman Belz 12. The Thirteenth Amendment Enacted 180 Michael Vorenberg 13. “That Which Congress So Nobly Began”: The Men Who Passed the Thirteenth Amendment Resolution 195 Ron J. Keller 14. The End of the Beginning: Abraham Lincoln and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments 213 Frank J. Williams 15. Picturing Freedom: The Thirteenth Amendment in the Graphic Arts 233 Harold Holzer Contributors 259 Index 263 ...