Final Freedom - The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment - Michael Vorenberg - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press

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Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.