Title Act of justice : Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the law of war / Burrus M. Carnahan

Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2007] ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (202 pages) Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents 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 -- Appendixes: First Confiscation Act, August 6, 1861 ; Browning-Lincoln correspondence, September 1861 ; Second Confiscation Act, July 17, 1862 ; Emancipation Proclamation, first draft, July 22, 1862 ; Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 ; Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 Summary In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would "have no lawful right" to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet less than two years later, he issued a proclamation intended to free all slaves throughout the Confederate states. When critics challenged the constitutional soundness of the act, Lincoln asserted that he was endowed "with the law of war in time of war." This book contends Lincoln was no reluctant emancipator; he wrote a truly radical document that treated Confederate slaves as an oppressed people rather than merely as enemy property. In this respect, Lincoln's proclamation anticipated the intellectual warfare tactics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. -- Publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views. SUBJECT Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 fast Lincoln, Abraham. swd Subject United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation. SUBJECT Emancipation Proclamation (United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)) fast Subject 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. American history: c 1800 to c 1900. Civil war. HISTORY. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. Constitutional history Executive power Military law Political and social views Enslaved persons -- Emancipation Kriegsrecht Völkerrecht Kriegsrecht Staatsrecht Staatsgewalt Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865 Sklaverei Abschaffung United States of America. Heads of State and Heads of government. Executive power. Slavery. Liberty. Constitutional law. Military law. Legal history. United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007017936 ISBN 9780813172736 081317273X 9780813138213 0813138213 9780813134871 0813134870 9786613233219 6613233218 1283233215 9781283233217

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