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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... Lincoln's friendship with Frederick Douglass . " -Adam Gopnik , The New Yorker " Extremely insightful . . . . The Radical and the Republican should be read by all people who wish to understand reform and the nature of change in the ...
... Lincoln's friendship with Frederick Douglass . " -Adam Gopnik , The New Yorker " Extremely insightful . . . . The Radical and the Republican should be read by all people who wish to understand reform and the nature of change in the ...
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... 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 Douglass the abo- litionist was one of Lincoln's ...
... 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 Douglass the abo- litionist was one of Lincoln's ...
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... Lincoln's ally , in the person of Fred . Douglass , THE NEGRO , preaching abolition doctrines , while Lincoln was discussing the same principles down here . " He cited a more recent speech “ made by Fred . Douglass ... in which he ...
... Lincoln's ally , in the person of Fred . Douglass , THE NEGRO , preaching abolition doctrines , while Lincoln was discussing the same principles down here . " He cited a more recent speech “ made by Fred . Douglass ... in which he ...
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... Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Sometimes the senator just made things up. He almost cer- tainly had not seen Frederick Douglass in Freeport, much less riding in a carriage with two white women. Moreover, Lincoln was not an abolitionist ...
... Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Sometimes the senator just made things up. He almost cer- tainly had not seen Frederick Douglass in Freeport, much less riding in a carriage with two white women. Moreover, Lincoln was not an abolitionist ...
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... Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were trivial, and he trusted his constituents to agree. Many of the senator's listeners in 1858 therefore had no trouble believing that there was some connection between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick ...
... Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were trivial, and he trusted his constituents to agree. Many of the senator's listeners in 1858 therefore had no trouble believing that there was some connection between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick ...
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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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