Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment

by Michael Vorenberg

Book Overview

This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation. The book tells the dramatic story of the creation of a constitutional amendment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521543843
• ISBN13: 9780521543842
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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