Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation

ISBN-13: 9780821422274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 276 str.

Paul Finkelman; Donald R. Kennon

Opis

When Lincoln took office, in March 1861, the national government had no power to touch slavery in the states where it existed. Lincoln understood this, and said as much in his first inaugural address, noting: I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. How, then, asks Paul Finkelman in the introduction to "Lincoln, Congress, and Emancipation, " did Lincoln who personally hated slavery lead the nation through the Civil War to January 1865, when Congress passed the constitutional amendment that ended slavery outright?