Journal of the Civil War Era

The Journal of the Civil War Era

Volume 3, Number 4
December 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SPECIAL ISSUE: PROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION AT 150

Articles
Introduction

Martha S. Jones, Guest Editor
History and Commemoration: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150

James Oakes
Reluctant to Emancipate? Another Look at the First Confiscation Act

Stephen Sawyer & William J. Novak
Emancipation and the Creation of Modern Liberal States in America and France

Thavolia Glymph
Rose''s War and the Gendered Politics of a Slave Insurgency in the Civil War

Martha Jones
Emancipation Encounters: The Meaning of Freedom from the Pages of Civil War Sketchbooks

Book Reviews
Books Received
Notes on Contributors