Description: Act of Justice : Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War, Hardcover by Carnahan, Burrus M., ISBN 0813124638, ISBN-13 9780813124636, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln declared that as president he would "have no lawful right" to interfere with the institution of slavery. Yet less than two years later, he issued a proclamation intended to free all slaves throughout the Confederate states. When critics challenged the constitutional soundness of the act, Lincoln asserted that he was endowed "with the law of war in time of war." In Act of Justice, Burrus M. Carnahan contends Lincoln was no reluctant emancipator; he wrote a truly radical document that treated Confederate slaves as an oppressed people rather than merely as enemy property. In this respect, Lincoln's proclamation anticipated the intellectual warfare tactics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Book Title: Act of Justice : Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law
Number of Pages: 212 Pages
Publication Name: Act of Justice : Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: History & Theory, Constitutions, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Presidents & Heads of State, Legal History, United States / General, Military
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Author: Burrus M. Carnahan
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Law, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
