Lecture 16 - Days of Jubilee: The Meanings of Emancipation and Total War

HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877 by Open Yale Courses - David Blight

This lecture focuses on the process of emancipation after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The Proclamation, Professor Blight suggests, had four immediate effects: it made the Union army a...View more