Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Paperback S/L# 27565

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Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Paperback S/L# 27565Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861 1865 by James Oakes Winner of the Lincoln Prize "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and