9. Lincoln and Emancipation

Questions:
1. What factors conditioned the attitude of Northerners to the issue of slavery?
2. Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
3. Did the slaves "free themselves"?

*Ira Berlin, “The destruction of slavery 1861-1865,” in Slaves no More: Tree Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
Allen Guelzo, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004)
LaWanda Cox, Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981)

Primary sources:
Lincoln, “Letter to Horace Greeley” Aug 22, 1862
Lincoln, “Emancipation Proclamation”, Jan1, 1863