Document Type
Article
Publication Date
January 2007
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Medford, Edna Greene, "Lincoln and the Constitutional Dilemma of Emancipation" (2007). History Department Faculty Publications. 53.
https://dh.howard.edu/hist_fac/53
Comments
Published by: Organization of American Historians