MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2015032054
003 DLC
005 20150822101032.0
008 150820s2016 ncu b s001 0 eng c
010 $a 2015032054
020 $a9781469627311 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $z9781469627328 (ebook)
040 $aNcU/DLC$beng$erda$cNcU
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE457.2$b.C935 2016
082 00 $a973.7092$223
100 1 $aCrofts, Daniel W.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aLincoln and the politics of slavery :$bthe other Thirteenth Amendment and the struggle to save the union /$cDaniel W. Crofts.
263 $a1604
264 1 $aChapel Hill :$bThe University of North Carolina Press,$c[2016]
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPrologue : the bread pill -- The antebellum context. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution ; Antislavery politics and the problem of the constitution ; The Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, and the problem of the Constitution -- Origins of the other Thirteenth Amendment. Mutual misconceptions ; The Seward amendment ; The Corwin amendment -- Debating the other Thirteenth Amendment. Reaching across the abyss ; The unfazed and the alarmed ; The amendment assessed -- The abortive launch. Congress acts ; The president speaks ; The ratification fizzle -- Epilogue 1. James M. Ashley and the Thirteenth Amendment -- Epilogue 2. John A. Bingham and the Fourteenth Amendment.
600 10 $aLincoln, Abraham,$d1809-1865$xPolitical and social views.
610 10 $aUnited States.$tConstitution.$n13th Amendment$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlaves$xEmancipation$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States$xHistory.