Includes index Slavery in the Colonies -- Under the Constitution -- Invoking the letter of law -- Lincoln's early convictions -- Lincoln and Douglas debates -- Anti-slavery sentiment before the war -- The period of attempted conciliation -- Congress and slavery before emancipation -- Slavery and the Army -- Approaching emancipation -- Laboring with Lincoln -- Lincoln and Horace Greeley -- Continued urging and arguing -- More incidents regarding the Proclamation -- The Proclamation of freedom -- The Proclamation's reception -- Loyal opinion -- Before and after the emancipation -- The message of 1862 -- The final Proclamation -- Two kinds of critics -- The pro-slavery element in evidence -- Lincoln's mainstay was the people -- Lincoln and Reconstruction -- Secession and Reconstruction -- Before the "Carpet-baggers" -- Just before sunset -- The religiously-minded Lincoln -- The Reconstruction Amendment -- Following the Amendment -- The aftermath -- Nullifying the Constitution -- Discrimination in education -- The Negro and the land -- The conclusion of the matter Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography 18