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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... Illinois State Register, denounced his speech as “nig- gerism.” Lincoln had said nothing he had not said many times before. If any- thing the speech was already familiar to his listeners. Since the founding days of the Republic Congress ...
... Illinois State Register, denounced his speech as “nig- gerism.” Lincoln had said nothing he had not said many times before. If any- thing the speech was already familiar to his listeners. Since the founding days of the Republic Congress ...
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... Illinois Democrats would fasten that name around Lincoln's neck. Stephen Douglas did it all the time during his famous debates with Lincoln in 1858. In their second encounter, at Freeport in late August, Douglas the senator claimed that ...
... Illinois Democrats would fasten that name around Lincoln's neck. Stephen Douglas did it all the time during his famous debates with Lincoln in 1858. In their second encounter, at Freeport in late August, Douglas the senator claimed that ...
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... Illinois , on September 18. The senator said that in 1854 , while canvass- ing the northern part of the state , " I found Lincoln's ally , in the person of Fred . Douglass , THE NEGRO , preaching abolition doctrines , while Lincoln was ...
... Illinois , on September 18. The senator said that in 1854 , while canvass- ing the northern part of the state , " I found Lincoln's ally , in the person of Fred . Douglass , THE NEGRO , preaching abolition doctrines , while Lincoln was ...
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... Illinois senator's stren- uous efforts to connect Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass as one more bit of racist pandering. But Stephen Douglas was a smart man and an uncommonly shrewd politician. He knew what he was doing, and some of ...
... Illinois senator's stren- uous efforts to connect Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass as one more bit of racist pandering. But Stephen Douglas was a smart man and an uncommonly shrewd politician. He knew what he was doing, and some of ...
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... Illinois nearly a decade earlier . Only this time the Democrats had solid evidence . In December 1863 Douglass had given a speech detailing a meeting he had with Lincoln at the White House a few months before . When Douglass's speech ...
... Illinois nearly a decade earlier . Only this time the Democrats had solid evidence . In December 1863 Douglass had given a speech detailing a meeting he had with Lincoln at the White House a few months before . When Douglass's speech ...
Contenido
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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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