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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... Garrisonian Detour When I escaped from slavery, and was introduced to the Garrisonians, I adopted very many of their opinions, and defended them just as long as I deemed them true. I was young, had read but little, and naturally took ...
... Garrisonian Detour When I escaped from slavery, and was introduced to the Garrisonians, I adopted very many of their opinions, and defended them just as long as I deemed them true. I was young, had read but little, and naturally took ...
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... Garrisonian argument against slavery was simple but dev- astating : Slavery degraded everyone and everything it touched . Because they were pacifists , the Garrisonians had few tactical options . They rejected force in the struggle ...
... Garrisonian argument against slavery was simple but dev- astating : Slavery degraded everyone and everything it touched . Because they were pacifists , the Garrisonians had few tactical options . They rejected force in the struggle ...
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... Garrisonian Douglass instead worked to promote a moral revolution by persuading listeners and readers that slav- ery was hateful . As part of that effort he would publish his own autobiography . Douglass wrote his Narrative of the Life ...
... Garrisonian Douglass instead worked to promote a moral revolution by persuading listeners and readers that slav- ery was hateful . As part of that effort he would publish his own autobiography . Douglass wrote his Narrative of the Life ...
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... Garrisonian, politics was a degraded enterprise beneath the dignity of a great moral movement. But precisely how faithful a Garrisonian was Douglass? There were some signs, early on, that he was less than a perfect match for the ...
... Garrisonian, politics was a degraded enterprise beneath the dignity of a great moral movement. But precisely how faithful a Garrisonian was Douglass? There were some signs, early on, that he was less than a perfect match for the ...
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... Garrisonian forever . Ironically , the thing that set in motion the events that led to Douglass's estrangement from his father figure was the publication of his most thoroughly Garrisonian tract . He had written the Narrative in part to ...
... Garrisonian forever . Ironically , the thing that set in motion the events that led to Douglass's estrangement from his father figure was the publication of his most thoroughly Garrisonian tract . He had written the Narrative in part to ...
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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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