CSPAN3 Lectures In History William Harris On Lincoln Antietam And Emancipation December 17, 2017
In the first year of the war. July 1861, lincoln and congress both say we are fighting a war for the union. We are not trying to revolutionize the south or end slavery. We want to restore the constitutional relationship between the states. And the union as they should be. And this is a conservative way to prevent the breakup of a country. But things happened. Contraband as they were called started running away. Here is a whole family that stole a wagon. Some were put to work. Contraband was still property, but it was property the union decided they would keep because it might be useful to the ...
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