Lincoln, Congress, and emancipation /edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon.
- Athens, Ohio : Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (vi, 270 pages) : illustrations, map, portraits
- Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: freedom, finally / Legislators and peoples: emancipations in comparative perspective / The ranchero spotty: an 1848 perspective on Abraham Lincoln's congressional term / "Disunion ... is abolition" / Lincoln, secession, and emancipation / Stevens, Sumner, and the journey to full emancipation / Frederick Douglass and the complications of emancipation / Abraham Lincoln: reluctant emancipator? / The road to freedom: how a railroad lawyer became the great emancipator / Double take: abolition and the size of transferred property rights / Mr. Spielberg goes to Washington / Paul Finkelman -- Seymour Drescher -- Amy S. Greenberg -- James Oakes -- Orville Vernon Burton -- Beverly Wilson Palmer -- L. Diane Barnes -- Michael Burlingame -- Paul Finkelman -- Jenny Bourne -- Matthew Pinsker.
"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.'"
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United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) -- Emancipation Proclamation. United States -- 13th Amendment Constitution --History.