Standing Upon a Volcano: Cincinnati’s Newspapers Debate Emancipation, 1860–1862

Author(s)
Binnington, Ian
Date Issued
June 26, 2009
Abstract
Newspaper editors in Cincinnati saw the abolition question on a spectrum before President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862. Most favored some form of confiscation of Confederate slaves for use in the Union war effort; some favored emancipation of slaves as a means to weaken the Confederacy; but almost all vociferously opposed any idea that unrestrained black freedom might be an outcome of the Civil War. While it appears to historians that there was an “inexorable logic” in the development of Union war aims, it is clear from the point of view of Cincinnati that the inexorability of that logic was heavily contested.
Journal
American Nineteenth Century History
Department
History
Citation
Binnington, I. (2009). Standing Upon a Volcano: Cincinnati’s Newspapers Debate Emancipation, 1860–1862. American Nineteenth Century History, 10(2): 163-186. doi: 10.1080/14664650902908128
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Version of Article
Published article
DOI
10.1080/14664650902908128
Rights
This article was selected and published in American Nineteenth Century History ©2009 Binnington. All rights reserved.
Subjects

emancipation

civil war

Cincinnati

newspapers

confiscation

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