

Still, there were many other powerful voices leading the country toward abolition, and none more prominent than Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave whose oral and written advocacy made him one of the era’s most visible social reformers. Masur, John Burt, and George Kateb, Harvard University Press is certainly keeping pace.

With books on Lincoln from Harold Holzer, Louis P. Lincoln himself remains the subject of scrutiny and celebration as the nation marks the 150 th anniversary of that major step toward the abolition of American slavery. In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln gave notice that he intended to free the slaves held in states still in rebellion against the Union, a promise fulfilled by the Emancipation Proclamation issued on January 1, 1863.
