TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finkelman,Paul
AU  - Kennon,Donald R.
TI  - Lincoln, Congress, and emancipation /edited by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon
T2  - Perspectives on the history of Congress, 1801-1877
SN  - 9780821445761
AV  - E457 .L563 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Athens, Ohio
PB  - Published for the United States Capitol Historical Society by Ohio University Press
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - United States
KW  - President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) --
KW  - Emancipation Proclamation
KW  - United States --
KW  - Constitution
KW  - 13th Amendment
KW  - History
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: freedom, finally; Paul Finkelman --; Legislators and peoples: emancipations in comparative perspective; Seymour Drescher --; The ranchero spotty: an 1848 perspective on Abraham Lincoln's congressional term; Amy S. Greenberg --; "Disunion ... is abolition"; James Oakes --; Lincoln, secession, and emancipation; Orville Vernon Burton --; Stevens, Sumner, and the journey to full emancipation; Beverly Wilson Palmer --; Frederick Douglass and the complications of emancipation; L. Diane Barnes --; Abraham Lincoln: reluctant emancipator?; Michael Burlingame --; The road to freedom: how a railroad lawyer became the great emancipator; Paul Finkelman --; Double take: abolition and the size of transferred property rights; Jenny Bourne --; Mr. Spielberg goes to Washington; Matthew Pinsker; 2; b
N2  - "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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