The Emancipation proclamation

While many historians have dealt with the Emancipation Proclamation as a phase or an aspect of the Civil War, few have given more than scant attention to the evolution of the document in the mind of Lincoln, the circumstances and conditions that led to its writing, its impact on the course of the wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009
Corporate Author: McLellan Lincoln Collection (Brown University)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1963
Garden City, N.Y. : c1963
Garden City, N.Y., 1963
Edition:[1st ed.]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Time of decision
  • Precedents and the Pressures
  • Decision and the Writing
  • Hundred Days
  • Day of Days
  • Victory more certain
  • End of unrequited toil