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Lincoln And The Constitutional Dilemma Of Emancipation, Edna Greene Medford
Lincoln And The Constitutional Dilemma Of Emancipation, Edna Greene Medford
Edna Greene Medford
On the afternoon of January 1,1863, following nearly two years of bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln set in motion events that would reconnect the detached cord of Union and that would begin to reconcile the nation's practices to its avowed democratic principles.