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This Research Guide was created to help the Marquette University community celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect January 1, 1863. The Guide is part of the Freedom Project at Marquette.

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Books--A Sampler

List here is just a selection of scholarly books published since 2000. For more books see the box above this one.

The Fiery Trial : Abraham Lincoln and American slavery - Eric Foner

Call Number: E457.2 .F66 2010 Memorial Level 2 Reading Room

Publication Date: 2010

In print only. Click title for bibliographic record.

Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, 1861-1865 - William K. Klingaman

Call Number: E457.2 .K57 2001 Memorial Level 2

Publication Date: 2001

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Act of Justice : Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the law of war - Burrus M. Carnahan

Call Number: E453 .C375 2007 Memorial Level 2

Publication Date: 2007

Online and in print. For online version click on title here. For print view MARQCAT Record

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation : the end of slavery in America - Allen C. Guelzo

Call Number: E453 .G9 2004 Memorial Level 2

Publication Date: 2004-02-03

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Team of Rivals: the political genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin

Call Number: E457.45 .G66 2005 Memorial Level 2

Publication Date: 2005

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Emancipating Lincoln - Harold Holzer

Call Number: E453 .H644 2012 Memorial Level 2 Reading Room

Publication Date: 2012

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Lincoln Reading the Emancipation Proclamation to His Cabinet

The original painting by Alonzo Chappel is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
This image of it is reproduced in the Art Museum Image Gallery.

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Map of the Areas to which the Emancipation Proclamation Applied

The Emancipatuion Proclamation drew its legal authority from the emergency of the war. Thus it applied to those states still at war with the federal government. Lincoln also did not want to threaten federal control of slave territory held by federal troops, who occupied Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. West Virginia had seceded from Virginia early in the war; it too was occupied by federal troops, as was the area around New Orleans and Washington D.C. The complete and constitutional abolition of slavery required the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, as viewers of the recent motion picture "Lincoln" will remember. Nonetheless the Emancipation Proclamation marked the effective end of slavery in the United States. The map
is from UShistory.org (http://www.ushistory.org/us/34a.asp).

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Juneteenth

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19^th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation - which had become official January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive Order. However, with the surrender of General Lee in April of 1865, and the arrival of General Granger’s regiment, the forces were finally strong enough to influence and overcome the resistance. From Juneteenth.com.