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  • Lincoln and the preconditions for emancipation : the moral grandeur of a bill of lading / Paul Finkelman
  • Colonization and the myth that Lincoln prepared the people for emancipation / Mark E. Neely Jr
  • Whatever shall appear to be God's will, I will do : the Chicago initiative and Lincoln's proclamation / Richard Carwardine
  • But what did the slaves think of Lincoln? / Steven Hahn
  • War, gender, and emancipation in the Civil War South / Stephanie McCurry
  • Abraham Lincoln's "fellow citizens"--before and after emancipation / Michael Vorenberg
  • Slaves, servants, and soldiers : uneven paths to freedom in the Border States, 1861-1865 / Louis Gerteis
  • Celebrating freedom : the problem of emancipation in public commemoration / William A. Blair.