

Freedom National
The destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Author: James Oakes
Narrator: Sean Pratt
Unabridged: 18 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 12/10/2012
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Modern History, Us History
Synopsis
In the disloyal South the federal government quickly began freeing slaves, immediately and without slaveholder compensation, as they fled to Union lines. In the loyal Border States the Republicans tried coaxing officials into abolishing slavery gradually with promises of compensation. As the devastating war continued with slavery still entrenched, Republicans embraced a more aggressive military emancipation, triggered by the Emancipation Proclamation. Finally it took a constitutional amendment on abolition to achieve the Union’s primary goal in the war. Here, in a magisterial history, are the intertwined stories of emancipation and the Civil War.