"Published in conjunction with the Lincoln Museum."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Joan L. Flinspach -- Introduction / Harold Holzer -- Slavery during Lincoln's lifetime / James Oliver Horton -- Lincoln's critique of Dred Scott as a vindication of the Founding / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Lincoln and the limits of constitutional authority / Phillip Shaw Paludan -- Lincoln, God, and freedom : a promise fulfilled / Lucas E. Morel -- "Sublime in its magnitude" : the Emancipation Proclamation / Allen C. Guelzo -- Lincoln's summer of emancipation / Matthew Pinsker -- The role of the press / Hans L. Trefousse -- Marching to freedom : the U.S. Colored Troops / John F. Marszalek -- Lincoln and the rhetoric of freedom / Ronald C. White Jr. -- Ballots over bullets : freedom and the 1864 election / David E. Long -- The Constitution, the amendment process, and the abolition of slavery / Herman Belz -- The Thirteenth Amendment enacted / Michael Vorenberg -- "That which Congress so nobly began" : the men who passed the Thirteenth Amendment resolution / Ron J. Keller -- The end of the beginning : Abraham Lincoln and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments / Frank J. Williams -- Picturing freedom : the Thirteenth Amendment in the graphic arts / Harold Holzer.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.