Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End SlaveryOxford University Press, 2006 M02 12 - 320 páginas Lincoln is the single most compelling figure in our history, but also one of the most enigmatic. Was he the Great Emancipator, a man of deep convictions who ended slavery in the United States, or simply a reluctant politician compelled by the force of events to free the slaves? In Father Abraham, Richard Striner offers a fresh portrait of Lincoln, one that helps us make sense of his many contradictions. Striner shows first that, if you examine the speeches that Lincoln made in the 1850s, you will have no doubt of his passion to end slavery. These speeches illuminate the anger, vehemence, and sheer brilliance of candidate Lincoln, who worked up crowds with charismatic fervor as he gathered a national following. But if he felt so passionately about abolition, why did he wait so long to release the Emancipation Proclamation? As Striner points out, politics is the art of the possible, and Lincoln was a consummate politician, a shrewd manipulator who cloaked his visionary ethics in the more pragmatic garb of the coalition-builder. He was at bottom a Machiavellian prince for a democratic age. When secession began, Lincoln used the battle cry of saving the Union to build a power base, one that would eventually break the slave-holding states forever. Striner argues that Lincoln was a rare man indeed: a fervent idealist and a crafty politician with a remarkable gift for strategy. It was the harmonious blend of these two qualities, Striner concludes, that made Lincoln's role in ending slavery so fundamental. |
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... declared, if they convinced themselves that their black fellow countrymen deserved nothing better than enslavement ... Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle,” if Americans indulged and abetted ...
... declared, if they convinced themselves that their black fellow countrymen deserved nothing better than enslavement ... Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle,” if Americans indulged and abetted ...
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... Declaration and its eloquent phrases altogether if they stood for nothing. “If that declaration is not the truth,” Lincoln cried out at the speech's climax, “let us get the Statute book, in which we find it and tear it out! Who is so ...
... Declaration and its eloquent phrases altogether if they stood for nothing. “If that declaration is not the truth,” Lincoln cried out at the speech's climax, “let us get the Statute book, in which we find it and tear it out! Who is so ...
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... declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes.'” Soon enough “it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to ...
... declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it, 'all men are created equal, except negroes.'” Soon enough “it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners and Catholics.' When it comes to ...
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... declared that preservation of the Union was indeed his paramount goal in the struggle. Moreover, in the course of the LincolnDouglas debates of 1858, Lincoln even made statements (under pressure from Douglas) denying that he advocated ...
... declared that preservation of the Union was indeed his paramount goal in the struggle. Moreover, in the course of the LincolnDouglas debates of 1858, Lincoln even made statements (under pressure from Douglas) denying that he advocated ...
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... Declaration of Independence, it was for Lincoln a sacred vessel, a channel through which, as he said in his 1858 Chicago address, Americans could feel themselves to be “blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote ...
... Declaration of Independence, it was for Lincoln a sacred vessel, a channel through which, as he said in his 1858 Chicago address, Americans could feel themselves to be “blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote ...
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Containment 18591861 | |
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Lincoln and Emancipation 18611862 | |
Lincoln and the War to the Death 1863 | |
Lincoln and the BestCase Future 18641865 | |
Notes | |
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Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery Richard Striner Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery Richard Striner Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery Richard Striner Vista de fragmentos - 2006 |
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