1. Are Abraham Lincoln’s views on slavery, as revealed in the two viewpoints in this book, consistent with each other? Are they consistent with the Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863, which freed the slaves in the Confederacy but not in the Union?
2. Historians have debated the moral ramifications of the Civil War for decades. Based on the viewpoints by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and Robert William Fogel and your own knowledge of American history, do you think the war’s nearly 1 million casualties were justified"