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

Oakes, James

How was slavery destroyed in the United States during the Civil War, and why was the outcome never certain?

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Author
Oakes, James

Why read it

  • You will learn how enslaved people who ran to Union lines helped force the end of slavery
  • You will question the idea that emancipation was easy or bound to happen
  • You will see how Congress, the army and the president each pushed emancipation along, even amid doubts

Who it is for

  • A reader who learned emancipation as one proclamation
  • A teacher of the Civil War era
  • Someone curious how law and war together changed a country

Contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. 1 “ULTIMATE EXTINCTION”
  3. 2 “DISUNION IS ABOLITION”
  4. 3 “FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES”
  5. 4 AUGUST 8, 1861: EMANCIPATION BEGINS
  6. 5 THE BORDER STATES
  7. 6 “SELF-EMANCIPATION”
  8. 7 “BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS THEY ARE CLEARLY FREE”
  9. 8 “A CORDON OF FREEDOM”
  10. 9 THE “PRELIMINARY” PROCLAMATION
  11. 10 THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
  12. 11 “THE SYSTEM YET LIVES”
  13. 12 “OUR FATHERS WERE MISTAKEN”
  14. EPILOGUE: WAS FREEDOM ENOUGH?

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