Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom

by Jones, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780803275652
• ISBN10: 080327565X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

In Abraham Lincoln and a New Birth of Freedom, Howard Jones explores the relationship between President Lincoln's wartime diplomacy and his interrelated goals of forming a more perfect Union and abolishing slavery. From the outset of the Civil War, Lincoln's central purpose was to save the Union by defeating the South on the battlefield. No less important was his need to prevent a European intervention that would have facilitated the South's move for independence. Lincoln's goal of preserving the Union, however, soon evolved into an effort to form a more perfect Union, one that rested on the natural rights principles of the Declaration of Independence and thus necessitated emancipation.Howard Jones is University Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of numerous books, including Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy which provided the historical basis for the movie Amistad.

Author Biography

Howard Jones is University Research Professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama. He is the author of numerous books, including Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy which provided the historical basis for the movie Amistad.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Prologue: To Preserve the Union	p. 1
Lincoln on Slavery: A Constitutional Right and a Moral Wrong	p. 19
Lincoln, Slavery, and Perpetual Union	p. 34
Southern Slavery, Northern Freedom: The Central Dilemma of the Republic	p. 56
Emancipation by the Sword? Race War and Antietam as Catalysts to Intervention	p. 83
"Days of Grace": Emancipation the Prelude to Foreign Intervention?	p. 110
Autumn of Discontent: The Crisis over Intervention	p. 128
The Emancipation Proclamation: An Act of Justice, Warranted by ... Military Necessity	p. 146
The Final Impact of Slavery on Intervention: Napoleon's Grand Design for the Americas	p. 163
Epilogue: To Create a More Perfect Union	p. 187
Notes	p. 193
Bibliographical Essay	p. 223
Index	p. 225
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