
What This Cruel War Was Over
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Chandra Manning graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1993 and received a M.Phil from the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 1995. She took her Ph.D. at Harvard in 2002. She has lectured in history at Harvard and taught at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown University.
Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- "WHEN THIS CRUEL WAR IS OVER"
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1
- "No earthly Power can prevent Secession and revolution"
- "If it had not been for.abolitionism.I would never have been soldiering"
- "The rebellion is abolitionizing the whole army"
- CHAPTER 2
- "I love my country but I love my family better"
- "Arguing on the Negro question"
- CHAPTER 3
- "This peculiar institution.has become so deeply rooted that [removing] it will shake the nation"
- "Any man who pretends to believe that this is not a war for the emancipation of the blacks.is either a fool or a liar"
- CHAPTER 4
- "The salvation of our country and.the removal of an enormous sin"
- "For equal rights with the rest of mankind"
- "God is with us & will carry us through safe if we will only prove ourselves worthy"
- CHAPTER 5
- "For liberty-but not for equality-nor fraternity-except in the limited sense."
- "Reconstruction is not progressing as fast as we would wish"
- "Everlasting war in preference to a union with a people who condescend to equalize themselves with the.negro"
- CHAPTER 6
- "By war, God is regenerating this Nation"
- "Rising step by step to the summit of liberty and equal rights"
- "If we are to depend on the slaves for our freedom it is gone anyway"
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- PRIMARY SOURCES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT
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