The Death of Slavery

1. The War and Slavery
   1. Conflicting Attitudes in the North
      1. Conservatives--A Limited War
         1. Narrow Framing--A War to Preserve the Union
         2. Constitutional Qualms About Attacking Slavery
         3. Hopes to Lure Southern Unionists Back
         4. Slaveholding States in the Union
         5. Proslavery Sentiment in North
      2. Radicals--A Revolution
         1. Striking at the Base of the "Slave Power"
         2. "Americanizing" the South--The South as "Banana Republic"
   2. The Logic of Events
      1. Slaves as Union Assets
         1. Seizing Slaveholders' "Property"--"Contrabands" and the Confiscation Acts (1861-1862)
         2. Slaves' Flight to Union Lines
      2. Slaves as Union Allies
2. Emancipation
   1. The Role of Lincoln--Moving With (or Nudging?) Public Opinion
   2. The Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862 and January 1, 1863)
      1. Narrowly Framed, BUT
      2. Transformed Union War Aims
   3. State Abolition
   4. The Thirteenth Amendment
3. The Impact on Southern Blacks
   1. Black Soldiers
   2. The Crumbling of the Plantation Regime
4. The Death of the Confederacy
   1. Increasing Impotence
   2. Spreading Disaffection
      1. Fear of "Despotism"
      2. The Issue of Arming the Slaves
5. An Epitaph for the Confederacy