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Introduction - John Adler, HarpWeek Publisher...
1787 - 1860... 1861 - 1862... 1863 - 1864... 1865...
Slavery and the Secession Crisis
Crittenden Compromise... Corwin Amendment...
Early Union Policies on Emancipation
Contrabands... Fremont's Emancipation Order Abolition in the District of Columbia... Hunter's Emancipation Order... Abolition in the Territories...
President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Policies
Gradualism, Compensation, and Colonization... Emancipation Proclamation... Wartime Reconstruction...
The Thirteenth Amendment
Congressional Proposals and Senate Passage... The Election of 1864... Passage by the House... Ratification and Results...
Ashley, James Mitchell... Bonner, John... Butler, Benjamin Franklin... Chase, Salmon Portland... Corwin, Thomas... Crittenden, John Jordan... Curtis, George William... Douglas, Stephen Arnold... Fremont, John Charles... Greeley, Horace... Henderson, John Brooks... Hunter, David... Johnson, Andrew... Johnson, Reverdy... Lincoln, Abraham... Seward, William Henry... Stevens, Thaddeus... Sumner, Charles... Toombs, Robert Augustus... Trumbull, Lyman... Wilson, James Falconer...
Glossary...
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