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Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation. Michael Vorenberg tells the dramatic story of the creation of a constitutional amendment and argues that the crucial consideration of emancipation happened after, not before the Emancipation Proclamation; that the debate over final freedom was shaped by a level of volatility in party politics underestimated by previous historians, and that the abolition of slavery by constitutional amendment represented a novel method of reform that transformed attitudes toward the Constitution. Michael Vorenberg is an assistant professor of history at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a research assistant to David Herbert Donald for his prize-winning biography, Lincoln, and he is a contributor to the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Reader's Companion to the American Presidency. This is his first book. From Library Journal This innovative, well-written work focuses on the emancipation of American slaves subsequent to the Emancipati

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Author

Michael Vorenberg, Christopher Tomlins

Publisher

Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781316171417

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Law, Science

Updated

2026-03-24