Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
Planting the Seed: Charles Sumner and John Quincy Adams     5
The Supreme Court on Private Property and War     25
Criminal Conspiracy or War?     41
The Union Applies the Law of War     61
The Law as a Weapon     71
Congress Acts and the Confederacy Responds     83
Military Necessity and Lincoln's Concept of the War     93
The Proclamation as a Weapon of War     117
The Conkling Letter     133
A Radical Recognition of Freedom     139
Appendixes
First Confiscation Act, August 6, 1861     143
Browning-Lincoln Correspondence, September 1861     145
Second Confiscation Act, July 17, 1862     157
Emancipation Proclamation, First Draft, July 22, 1862     163
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862     165
Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863     169
Notes     173
Index     191