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Autor: Rebecca E. Zietlow
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: The Historian. 79:871-873
ISSN: 1540-6563
0018-2370
DOI: 10.1111/hisn.12708
Popis: When Americans consider how slavery was abolished in the United States, they usually credit one person, President Abraham Lincoln, and one act, his Emancipation Proclamation. In this new study, his...
Databáze: OpenAIRE