President Lincoln's Attitude towards Slavery and Emancipation: With a Review of Events before and since the Civil War

Table of contents

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• Title Page 1
• Contents 5
• Foreword 7
• Slavery in the Colonies 10
• Under the Constitution 15
• Invoking the Letter of the Law 20
• Lincoln's Early Convictions 27
• Lincoln and the Douglas Debates 32
• Anti-Slavery Sentiment before the War 39
• The Period of Attempted Conciliation 43
• Slavery the Confederacy's Cornerstone 49
• Congress and Slavery before Emancipation 54
• Slavery and the Army 60
• Approaching Emancipation 65
• Laboring with Lincoln 70
• Lincoln and Horace Greeley 75

• Title Page 1
• Contents 5
• Foreword 7
• Slavery in the Colonies 10
• Under the Constitution 15
• Invoking the Letter of the Law 20
• Lincoln's Early Convictions 27
• Lincoln and the Douglas Debates 32
• Anti-Slavery Sentiment before the War 39
• The Period of Attempted Conciliation 43
• Slavery the Confederacy's Cornerstone 49
• Congress and Slavery before Emancipation 54
• Slavery and the Army 60
• Approaching Emancipation 65
• Laboring with Lincoln 70
• Lincoln and Horace Greeley 75
• Continued Urging and Arguing 80
• More Incidents regarding the Proclamation 86
• The Proclamation of Freedom 93
• The Proclamation's Reception 99
• Loyal Opinion 104
• Before and after Emancipation 109
• The Message of 1862 114
• The Final Proclamation 119
• Two Kinds of Critics 124
• The Pro-Slavery Element in Evidence 130
• Lincoln's Mainstay Was the People 134
• Lincoln and Reconstruction 140
• Secession and Reconstruction 148
• Before the "Carpet-Baggers" 155
• Just before Sunset 160
• The Religiously-Minded Lincoln 165
• The Reconstruction Amendment 173
• Following the Amendment 178
• The Aftermath 183
• Nullifying the Constitution 187
• Discrimination in Education 195
• The Negro and the Land 202
• The Conclusion of the Matter 209
• Index 215