{"product_id":"final-freedom-michael-vorenberg-9780521543842","title":"Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment","description":"Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and the border states to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation. Michael Vorenberg tells the dramatic story of the creation of a constitutional amendment and argues that the crucial consideration of emancipation happened after, not before the Emancipation Proclamation; that the debate over final freedom was shaped by a level of volatility in party politics underestimated by previous historians, and that the abolition of slavery by constitutional amendment represented a novel method of reform that transformed attitudes toward the Constitution. Michael Vorenberg is an assistant professor of history at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a research assistant to David Herbert Donald for his prize-winning biography, Lincoln, and he is a contributor to the Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association and the Reader's Companion to the American Presidency. This is his first book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Vorenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521543843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521543842\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Michael Vorenberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43920029778175,"sku":"9780521543842","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_051d7b77-c59f-4ac7-a5b1-09da2514a486.jpg?v=1680813206","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/final-freedom-michael-vorenberg-9780521543842","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}