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Abraham Lincoln: A Life, 2: 154; Richard H. Sewell, John P. Hale and the Politics of Antislavery (Cambridge, Mass., 1965), 207; Meltzer and Holland, Lydia Maria Child, 381.

65. Orville H. Browning to Lincoln, April 30, 1861; James R. Doolittle to Lincoln, April 18, 1861, both in ALP; Perkins, Northern Editorials, 2: 633–34, 727–30; Paul D. Escott, “What Shall We Do with the Negro?”: Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America (Charlottesville, 2009), 9; New York Times, May 31, 1861.

66. Allan Nevins, ed., The Diary of John Quincy Adams (New York, 1928), 246–47; Burrus M. Carnahan, Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War (Lexington, Ky., 2007), 8–9, 14–15; CG, 36th Congress, 2nd Session, appendix, 83; Donald, Charles Sumner, 388; Stewart, Wendell Phillips, 219–22; Phillips, Speeches, 396–411; Liberator, April 26, 1861.

67. David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (Baton Rouge, 1989), 24; Douglass’ Monthly, 3 (January 1861), 386–87, and (May 1861), 449–51; John R. McKivigan, “James Redpath and Black Reaction to the Haitian Emigration Bureau,” Mid-America, 69 (October 1987), 139–53.

68. Weekly Anglo-African, April 27, 1861.

69. Michael Burlingame and John R. Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale, Ill., 1997), 19; National Anti-Slavery Standard, July 13, 1861.


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1. OR, ser. 1, 1: 195; ser. 2, 1: 750.

2. Harper’s Weekly, May 4, 1861; Milton Meltzer and Patricia G. Holland, eds., Lydia Maria Child: Selected Letters, 1817–1880 (Amherst, Mass., 1982), 380; Michael Burlingame and John R. Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale, Ill., 1997), 12; Nicholas B. Wainwright, ed., A Philadelphia Perspective: The Diary of Sidney George Fisher Covering the Years 1834–1871 (Philadelphia, 1967), 387; Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Conflict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861–1865 (Chapel Hill, 1995), 26–32; New York Tribune, May 14, 1861; Springfield Weekly Republican, April 20, 1861; Easton Gazette (Maryland), July 13, 1861.

3. Howard C. Perkins, ed., Northern Editorials on Secession (2 vols.; New York, 1942), 2: 834; Armstead L. Robinson, Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865 (Charlottesville, 2005), 41–43.

4. New York Times, September 28, 1862; John H. Bayne to Lincoln, March 17, 1862, ALP; Craig Symonds ed., Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John B. Marchand, U.S. Navy, 1861–1862 (Newport, R.I., 1976), 175–81, 192; Craig Symonds, Lincoln and His Admirals (New York, 2008), 157–59.

5. Steven Hahn, The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom (Cambridge, Mass., 2009), 61–64; Ira Berlin et al., eds., Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867 (New York, 1982–), ser. 1, 3: 77–80; ser. 1, 1: 11–14; Robinson, Bitter Fruits, 184–87; OR, ser. 1, 51, pt. 2: 278–81; ser. 2, 1: 755–57.

6. New York Herald, December 4, 1861.

7. Isaac N. Arnold, The History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery (Chicago, 1866), 207–8; David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York, 1995), 302; Burrus M. Carnahan, Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War (Lexington, Ky., 2007), 43–49, 61.

8. William E. Gienapp, “Abraham Lincoln and the Border States,” JALA, 13 (1992), 13–25; Richard H. Abbott, The Republican Party and the South, 1855–1877: The First Southern Strategy (Chapel Hill, 1986), 21–22; Charles L. Wagandt, The Mighty Revolution: Negro Emancipation in Maryland, 1862–1864 (Baltimore, 1964), 9–18; William D. Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton (2 vols.; Indianapolis, 1899), 1: 134–35.

9. OR, ser. 2, 1: 752; Louis S. Gerteis, From Contraband to Freedman: Federal Policy toward Southern Blacks, 1861–1865 (Westport, Conn., 1973), 11–13; Harper’s Weekly, February 9, 1861; Edward L. Pierce, Emancipation and Citizenship (Boston, 1898), 20–23.

10. Pierce, Emancipation and Citizenship, 20–23; Harper’s Weekly, June 8, 1861; Kate Masur, “‘A Rare

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