The crooked path to abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution

"That glorious fabric of collected wisdom" : a brief history of the antislavery Constitution

"Freedom is the rule, slavery is the exception" : the emergence of antislavery constitutionalism

The antislavery project : Lincoln and antislavery politics

"My ancient faith" : Lincoln, race, and the antislavery Constitution

The forfeiture of rights : emancipation before the proclamation

"A king's cure" : Lincoln and the origins of the Thirteenth Amendment.