Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
By James Oakes.
Description
Winner of the Lincoln Prize "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." ―David Brion Davis, New York Review of BooksFreedom 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 aim...
ISBN(s)
0393347753, 9780393347753
