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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... President in 1860, repeatedly insisting that he was not an abolitionist. For that very reason Douglass maintained a skeptical distance from Lincoln in 1860. Douglass had hopes for the Republican Party, but he didn't fully trust Lincoln ...
... President in 1860, repeatedly insisting that he was not an abolitionist. For that very reason Douglass maintained a skeptical distance from Lincoln in 1860. Douglass had hopes for the Republican Party, but he didn't fully trust Lincoln ...
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... President's radical turn made Lincoln an increasingly appealing figure. Douglass changed as well. As Lincoln was becoming a radi- cal, Douglass was becoming a Republican. Long before the Civil 0 0 War he had come to appreciate that ...
... President's radical turn made Lincoln an increasingly appealing figure. Douglass changed as well. As Lincoln was becoming a radi- cal, Douglass was becoming a Republican. Long before the Civil 0 0 War he had come to appreciate that ...
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... President's connection to Frederick Douglass , an issue they had first broached in 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 ...
... President's connection to Frederick Douglass , an issue they had first broached in 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 ...
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... President for having met with a notorious black abolitionist , Lincoln invited Douglass back to the White House for a second meeting . Douglass had been impressed by Lincoln at their first encounter . After leaving the White House the ...
... President for having met with a notorious black abolitionist , Lincoln invited Douglass back to the White House for a second meeting . Douglass had been impressed by Lincoln at their first encounter . After leaving the White House the ...
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... President, John Quincy Adams, and his courageous efforts to force the House of Representative to accept antislavery petitions. When he was only eighteen or nineteen years old his friends invited him to join the East Baltimore Mental ...
... President, John Quincy Adams, and his courageous efforts to force the House of Representative to accept antislavery petitions. When he was only eighteen or nineteen years old his friends invited him to join the East Baltimore Mental ...
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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