| Contents: |
Prologue, September 22, 1862: Lincoln Tells a Story -- THE PATH TO THE PRELIMINARY PROCLAMATION -- Toward Emancipation -- Messages and Measures -- A New Departure -- Movement -- ONE HUNDRED DAYS -- Judgments -- The Reactions of Scholars and Soldiers -- Intervention and Election Fever -- "We Cannot Escape History" -- Standing Firm -- THE PROCLAMATION AND BEYOND -- Jubilee -- "Men of Color, To Arms!" -- "It Can Not Be Retracted" -- Emancipation Triumphant -- Epilogue, April 4, 1865: Lincoln Visits Richmond. |
