Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Paperback S/L# 13938

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What is the moral basis of popular sovereignty

ultimately clashing in the costliest battle in North American history

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The history of each battlefield is followed by the classic ghost stories that have been around since the guns fell silent

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Paperback S/L# 13938Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861 1865 by James Oakes Winner of the Lincoln Prize "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and