商品簡介
Whitman, a historian and author who writes about slavery and emancipation in eighteenth and nineteenth-century America, explores the connection between the Maryland Campaign, culminating in the battle of Antietam in 1862, and the drive to emancipate slaves to win the Civil War. He discusses the conduct of war and the politics of slavery and emancipation from Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 through General Lee's rebuff of McClellan outside Richmond in 1862. He describes European reactions to this phase of the Civil War, Lee's Maryland Campaign, the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation and political reaction to it in the midterm elections, British and French reactions to emancipation, and Lincoln's defense of it and its military and political impact in 1863. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
T. Stephen Whitman, PhD, writes about slavery and emancipation in 18th- and 19th-century America.
