Abraham Lincoln, the Problem of Slavery,
and the Crisis of the Union
July 19-23, 2004
July 19: McPherson, "Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism"; Kolchin, American
Slavery, chaps. 1-5 (esp. 4-5), and Afterword
July 20: Kolchin, American Slavery, chap. 6; Faust, ed., Ideology of Slavery (skip
selection by William Harper); Cain, ed., William Lloyd Garrison, pp. 1-57,
70-77, 80-94, 97-105, 112-15, 132-33, 140-41, 144-59
July 21: Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men; Gienapp, Abraham Lincoln and Civil
War America, chaps. 1-3; Johnson, ed., Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the
Civil War, chaps. 1-5 (esp. pp. 1-29, 33-50, 54-80, 96-97, 99, 108-18)
July 22: Fields, "Who Freed the Slaves?"; "McPherson, "Who Freed the Slaves?";
Gienapp, ed., chaps. 4-8; Cain, ed., pp. 164-67, 171-75, 179-83; Johnson, ed.,
chaps. 5-10 (esp. pp. 122-24, 168, 173, 175, 179-94, 200-21, 226-27, 263,
276-81, 296, 305-06, 317-21, 329-33)
July 23: Kolchin, chap. 7
