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Act of justice : Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the law of war
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- Creator
- Burrus M. Carnahan
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 202 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813134871, 081317273X, 9780813138213, 9780813124636, 9780813172736, 0813124638, 0813134870, 0813138213, 0813134587, 1283233215, 9781283233217, 6613233218, 9786613233219
- OCLC
- ocn131062592, ocn173766019, ocn607561636
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index.
- Planting the Seed: Charles Sumner and John Quincy Adams -- The Supreme Court on Private Property and War -- Criminal Conspiracy or War? -- The Union Applies the Law of War -- The Law as a Weapon -- Congress Acts and the Confederacy Responds -- Military Necessity and Lincoln's Concept of the War -- The Proclamation as a Weapon of War -- The Conkling Letter -- A Radical Recognition of Freedom
Subjects
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views.
- United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln).
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
- African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 19th century.
- Military law -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Executive power -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Constitutional history -- United States.