The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery PoliticsW. W. Norton & Company, 2011 M02 7 - 352 páginas "A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker “My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America—their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States. James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America. |
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... Constitution protected slavery in the southern states when he found, tucked away in the war powers of the presidency, a legal justification for emancipation. He then committed himself to the enlistment of black soldiers, over- turning a ...
... Constitution protected slavery in the southern states when he found, tucked away in the war powers of the presidency, a legal justification for emancipation. He then committed himself to the enlistment of black soldiers, over- turning a ...
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... Constitution because it recognized and pro- tected slavery . Garrison himself called the Constitution a “ pact with the devil . " He burned a copy of it in public . A corrupt Constitution meant a corrupt political system , so the ...
... Constitution because it recognized and pro- tected slavery . Garrison himself called the Constitution a “ pact with the devil . " He burned a copy of it in public . A corrupt Constitution meant a corrupt political system , so the ...
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... Constitution and adopted the “ non - voting principle . " He rejected politics . He would not vote . He would not support antislavery candidates . He even flirted with pacifism . In 1843 he got into a public disagreement with more ...
... Constitution and adopted the “ non - voting principle . " He rejected politics . He would not vote . He would not support antislavery candidates . He even flirted with pacifism . In 1843 he got into a public disagreement with more ...
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... he might stray from the righteous Garrisonian path. 7. FDP , ser . 1 , vol . 2 , p . 390 . 8. Life & Writings , vol . 2 , p . 210 . As a leading proponent of the idea that the Constitution I 2 The Radical and the Republican.
... he might stray from the righteous Garrisonian path. 7. FDP , ser . 1 , vol . 2 , p . 390 . 8. Life & Writings , vol . 2 , p . 210 . As a leading proponent of the idea that the Constitution I 2 The Radical and the Republican.
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... Constitution of the United States sanctioned slavery , because the churches of the United States defended slavery , Douglass now claimed that " the whole system , the entire network of American society , is one great falsehood , from ...
... Constitution of the United States sanctioned slavery , because the churches of the United States defended slavery , Douglass now claimed that " the whole system , the entire network of American society , is one great falsehood , from ...
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2 | 87 |
This Thunderbolt Will Keep | 133 |
5 | 173 |
My Friend Douglass | 209 |
7 | 247 |
For Further Reading | 289 |
Acknowledgments | 305 |
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