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

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New York / London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. First printing. A few pages creased. 2014 Trade Paperback. xxiv, 595 pp. "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… Read More

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W. W. Norton & Company, January 2014. Trade Paperback. New.