Abraham Lincoln, slavery, and the Civil War : selected writings and speeches /

Title:

Abraham Lincoln, slavery, and the Civil War : selected writings and speeches /

Author:

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.

Published:

Boston : ©2011.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Contents:

Introduction: Abraham Lincoln, wordsmith. 1. Becoming a Republican. The Kansas-Nebraska Act ; Justifications of slavery ; "Where I now stand" ; The Dred Scott decision -- 2. Leading the Republican party. A house divided ; The Lincoln-Douglas debates ; The 1860 campaign for president -- 3. From secession to war. The limits of compromise ; Inauguration as president ; A war to save the Union ; War in earnest -- 4. Marching South. "Delay is ruining us" ; The Peninsula campaign ; The Second Battle of Bull Run and Antietam ; Home-front politics -- 5. Toward emancipation. Reassuring loyal Southerners ; Announcing emancipation -- 6. A war for freedom and union. Emancipation and Black soldiers ; The decisive summer of 1863 ; Politics of war and freedom -- 7. Defending a new birth of freedom. War without end ; Planning reconstruction ; The political campaign for union, freedom, and war ; Glorious victories, a vote for union, freedom, and war? -- 8. "To finish the work we are in". The war continues ; Toward peace and freedom ; "That this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away" -- Appendixes. An Abraham Lincoln chronology (1809-1865) ; Questions for consideration.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Wentworth Stacks--Upper Level
973.7092 .L56Lin 2011 – Available