{"product_id":"emancipation-war-the-fall-of-slavery-and-the-coming-of-the-thirteenth-amendment-hardcover","title":"Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDamon Root\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeaking to a fractured country for the first time as president, Abraham Lincoln endorsed a constitutional amendment designed to permanently safeguard slavery in every state in which the institution already existed. If that proslavery provision had been ratified, it would have become the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Three years later, Lincoln again threw his support behind a constitutional amendment to address slavery: this time to abolish it. Formally ratified in 1865, this is the Thirteenth Amendment we know today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happened in those intervening years that led Lincoln to switch from supporting a proslavery amendment to embracing the antislavery provision that ultimately became enshrined in the Constitution? Why did the Thirteenth Amendment of 1864-65 win out over that of 1861? Lincoln himself provided a key to understanding: \"I claim not to have controlled events,\" he said, \"but confess plainly that events have controlled me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEmancipation War\u003c\/i\u003e award-winning journalist Damon Root chronicles the great legal, political, and military struggle to amend the U.S. Constitution to outlaw slavery once and for all. It is the story of canny political tacticians and unyielding radicals; of famous orators and unsung pamphleteers; of liberty-minded Union officers and enslaved persons who liberated themselves by following the North Star to freedom, and who then, in some cases, donned uniforms and took up arms against their former enslavers. It was this wide-ranging movement against slavery--operating both inside and outside the halls of government power, fighting both on and off the battlefield--that made an antislavery constitutional amendment possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTelling the story from both the top down and the bottom up, \u003ci\u003eEmancipation War\u003c\/i\u003e provides a gripping and revealing new history of the Thirteenth Amendment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDamon Root \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning legal affairs journalist and the author of \u003ci\u003eA Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e (Potomac Books, 2023) and \u003ci\u003eOverruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has also appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Press\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.27 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54026950934861,"sku":"9781640126435","price":42.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/dURMhpe9E79781640126435.webp?v=1780509014","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/emancipation-war-the-fall-of-slavery-and-the-coming-of-the-thirteenth-amendment-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}