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Book Review


Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. By Burrus M. Carnahan. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. x, 202 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2463-6.)
Though Burrus M. Carnahan's opening claim that the "legal context" of the Emancipation Proclamation "remains largely uncharted territory" might strike some Lincoln-weary readers as almost laughable, his thoughtful study of nineteenth-century attitudes regarding the law of war and the emancipation of slaves should win over all but the most hardened skeptics (p. 2). This impressive monograph may not become the definitive study of Abraham Lincoln's emancipation policy, but it will surely prove to be an indispensable supplement for serious students of the subject. . . .
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