| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Book Review

Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment. Ed. by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007. viii, 271 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8093-2764-5.)
Lincoln and Freedom is an edited volume of fifteen essays commissioned by the Lincoln Museum to celebrate the 2009 bicentennial of the president's birth and the museum's acquisition of an autographed copy of the Thirteenth Amendment. Focusing primarily on the period from 1860 to 1865, the book's chapters answer a diverse set of research questions, while they celebrate Abraham Lincoln's moral courage and political acumen.	1
The editors Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard do not divide the book into sections; nevertheless, an immanent structure exists. The first six chapters address Lincoln's motives as he balanced a stalwart commitment to the Constitution with his personal desire for emancipation. Chapters 7 through 10 detail four historical contexts that affected emancipation and on which emancipation had an effect. Chapters 11 through 15 consider the Thirteenth Amendment as the culmination of Lincoln's will and a political act worthy of commemoration.	. . .

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