<p>This story begins with the hideouscontradiction between the ideals of libertyand the practice of slavery in America.From the seed of 'slavery containment'within the fifteen slave states grew anational law banning slavery, craftedin large part by the words and actionsof Abraham Lincoln. Read primarysource documents that take you on ajourney through the evolution of liberty,culminating with the EmancipationProclamation and Lincoln's SecondInaugural Address. This book focuses onLincoln's words and actions to abolishslavery in the decade before he signed the13th Amendment in 1865.</p>

Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

History

James G. Basker and Justine Ahlstrom

Americas

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation