TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richards,Leonard L.
TI  - Who freed the slaves?: the fight over the Thirteenth Amendment 
SN  - 9780226178202 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - KF4545.S5 R53 2015
U1  - 342.7308/7 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Ashley, James Mitchell,
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitution
KW  - 13th Amendment
KW  - History
KW  - President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
KW  - Emancipation Proclamation
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Emancipation
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Law and legislation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-295) and index; Prologue: Wednesday, June 15, 1864 -- The old order and its defenders -- Lincoln and emancipation -- To a white and black man's war -- The odd couple -- Hostility of the northern democracy -- The lame ducks of 1864 -- The enforcement clause and its enemies -- Epilogue: Emancipation Day, 1893
ER  -