
Freedom national
About this book
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
Subjects
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)SlaveryUnited StatesSlavesEmancipationAntislavery movementsHistorySlavery, united states, historySlaves, emancipation, united statesAfrican americans, historyUnited states, history, civil war, 1861-1865Emancipation proclamationAntislavery movements, united statesPresidents, united statesCivil War Period (1850-1877)Amerikaanse burgeroorlogSlavernijEmancipatieAbolitionismeEmancipation Proclamation (United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln))