Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Paperback Grant celebrates the bicentennial of

Grant celebrates the bicentennial of the birth of a man whose towering impact on American history has often been overshadowed and in many cases

As if the bloodied fields of national division were inflaming their own private

changed the direction of the country and established a government of the people

and use numbers growing up alongside the master’s son

disposition of POWs

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 (James Oakes - BH) Size:Paperback Grant celebrates the bicentennial ofFreedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861 1865 by James Oakes Winner of the Lincoln Prize "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and