Contains primary source material.

This book examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--

"Traces the history of emancipation and its impact on the Civil War, discussing how Lincoln and the Republicans fought primarily for freeing slaves throughout t

Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and