| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment. By Michael Vorenberg. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xviii, 305 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-521-65267-7.)

Shortly before Abraham Lincoln's inauguration (March 1861), enough Republicans supported a constitutional amendment to win its passage in the House. Stephen Douglas secured the amendment's passage in the Senate, and President James Buchanan ceremoniously (and unnecessarily) signed the measure. This Thirteenth Amendment (ratified by two states) forbade any further alteration of the Constitution regarding slavery in the states. A few days before Lincoln's assassination (April 1865), Congress passed a new Thirteenth Amendment forever ending slavery in the United States. In his examination of that political and ideological transformation, Michael Vorenberg recaptures the revolutionary temper of the times. . . .

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