Fort 'Freedom' and the Turning Point of the Emancipation Movement

Emancipation Cartoon from Harpers Weekly

The stumbling evolution of the framing of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, beginning with a legal argument over 'contraband'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/magazine/mag-03CivilWar-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=magazine