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72. Foner, Reconstruction, 49; Cox, Lincoln and Black Freedom, 94–95; Liberator, April 1, 1864; Ted Tunnell, “Free Negroes and the Freedmen: Black Politics in New Orleans during the Civil War,” Southern Studies, 19 (Spring 1980), 16–17; CW, 7: 243. Lincoln’s letter to Governor Hahn did not become public until June 23, 1865, when the New York Times printed it at the request of Congressman William D. Kelley.
73. McCrary, Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction, 245–53; Taylor, Louisiana Reconstructed, 46; Nathaniel P. Banks to John Hay, March 28, 1864; Banks to Lincoln, July 25, 1864, both in ALP.
74. CW, 7: 486; 8: 106–7.
75. New York Times, January 3, 1863.
76. William H. Kimball, “Our Government and the Blacks,” Continental Monthly, 5 (April 1864), 433–44; Philadelphia Inquirer, February 10, 1864.
77. John G. Sproat, “Blueprint for Radical Reconstruction,” JSH, 23 (February 1957), 34–40; OR, ser. 3, 4: 382; James McKaye, The Mastership and Its Fruits: The Emancipated Slave Face to Face with His Old Master (New York, 1864), 35–37.
78. Works of Charles Sumner, 8: 480–81.
79. Willie Lee Rose, Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (Indianapolis, 1964); Cecil B. Ely Jr., ed., A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War (Chapel Hill, 1961), 148–50; William F. Messner, Freedmen and the Ideology of Free Labor: Louisiana, 1862–1865 (Lafayette, La., 1978), 21–39; James D. Schmidt, Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815–1880 (Athens, Ga., 1998), 95–97; CP, 3: 416.
80. Steven J. Ross, “Freed Soil, Freed Labor, Freed Men: John Eaton and the Davis Bend Experiment,” JSH, 44 (May 1978), 215–17; Louis S. Gerteis, From Contraband to Freedman: Federal Policy toward Southern Blacks, 1861–1865 (Westport, Conn., 1973), 123–26.
81. Berlin et al., Freedom, ser. 1, 3: 492–510, 757–62; McKaye, Mastership, 24; Gerteis, From Contraband to Freedman, 127–32.
82. Schmidt, Free to Work, 103–4; CW, 7: 212; Ronald F. Davis, Good and Faithful Labor: From Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District, 1860–1890 (Westport, Conn., 1982), 64–73; Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, 163.
83. Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, 88–91; Simon, Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, 8: 343–44; Edward L. Pierce, Emancipation and Citizenship (Boston, 1898), 87; John Eaton to Lincoln, July 18, 1863, ALP.
84. CW, 6: 453–57; 7: 98–99; CP, 3: 352; 4: 227–28, 259–60, 292–93; Washington Daily Morning Chronicle, January 19, 1864; Weekly Anglo-African, August 27, 1864; Rose, Rehearsal, 272–96.
85. New York Times, February 23, 1864; CW, 7: 54.
86. CW, 7: 145.
87. CW, 7: 185, 218; New York Times, July 10, 1864, and July 10, 1891; Daniel E. Sickles to Lincoln, May 31, 1864, ALP; Edcumb Pinchon, Dan Sickles (Garden City, N.Y., 1945), 208; Eaton, Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen, 172–73.
88. New York Times, February 25, 1864.
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1. New York Times, December 12, 1862; Leonard Marsh, On the Relations of Slavery to the War (n.p., 1861), 6.
2. Henry Everett Russell, “Reconstruction,” Continental Monthly, 4 (December 1863), 684; Michael Burlingame and John R. Ettlinger, eds., Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay (Carbondale, Ill., 1997), 124; Weekly Anglo-African, September 23, 1863; Liberator, January 1, 1864; Sarah F. Hughes, ed., Letters (Supplementary) of John Murray Forbes (3 vols.; Boston, 1905), 2: 195.
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