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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 Paperback - 2014 - 1st Edition

by James Oakes

A powerful history of emancipation that will reshape our understanding of Lincoln and the Civil War.


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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 lines in the disloyal South. In the loyal Border States the Republicans tried coaxing officials into gradual abolition with promises of compensation and the colonization abroad of freed blacks. James Oakes shows that Lincoln's landmark 1863 proclamation marked neither the beginning nor the end of emancipation: it triggered a more aggressive phase of military emancipation, sending Union soldiers onto plantations to entice slaves away and enlist the men in the army. But slavery proved deeply entrenched, with slaveholders determined to re-enslave freedmen left behind the shifting Union lines. Lincoln feared that the war could end in Union victory with slavery still intact. The Thirteenth Amendment that so succinctly abolished slavery was no formality: it was the final act in a saga of immense war, social upheaval, and determined political leadership.

Fresh and compelling, this magisterial history offers a new understanding of the death of slavery and the rebirth of a nation.

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  • Title Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
  • Author James Oakes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Qk6
  • Date 2014-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393347753 / 0393347753
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.79 x 1.2 in (20.98 x 14.71 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Topical: Black History
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, United States - History - Civil War,
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.714
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