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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... federal funds to encourage the gradual liberation of slaves. As a test case, Lincoln offered this voluntary phaseout package to the handful of border slave states that had not attempted secession. What he hoped to achieve was the ...
... federal funds to encourage the gradual liberation of slaves. As a test case, Lincoln offered this voluntary phaseout package to the handful of border slave states that had not attempted secession. What he hoped to achieve was the ...
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... Federal Constitution, which was being drafted at this time, gave the Federal Congress the power to shut off the importation of slaves after twenty years. Together, the Northwest Ordinance and the Constitution's importation cutoff ...
... Federal Constitution, which was being drafted at this time, gave the Federal Congress the power to shut off the importation of slaves after twenty years. Together, the Northwest Ordinance and the Constitution's importation cutoff ...
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... federal government in ways that would insinuate an antislavery agenda into slave states by measured degrees. These fears propelled one of the most spectacular ideological turnabouts in American history, the transformation of South ...
... federal government in ways that would insinuate an antislavery agenda into slave states by measured degrees. These fears propelled one of the most spectacular ideological turnabouts in American history, the transformation of South ...
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... federal government to erect the peaceful standard of servile revolt, to give the bounties for Emancipation here, and ... federal level, lest a newly powerful federal government fall into the hands of abolitionists, who would use their ...
... federal government to erect the peaceful standard of servile revolt, to give the bounties for Emancipation here, and ... federal level, lest a newly powerful federal government fall into the hands of abolitionists, who would use their ...
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... Federal laws, as a sovereign right reserved to the State,” when the rights of any state could be easily trumped through the power of a constitutional amendment, as soon as threequarters of the states had chosen to ratify one. The ...
... Federal laws, as a sovereign right reserved to the State,” when the rights of any state could be easily trumped through the power of a constitutional amendment, as soon as threequarters of the states had chosen to ratify one. The ...
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Containment 18591861 | |
Four | |
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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