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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... began to awaken from his lifelong insensitivity to racial injustice. He abandoned all talk of coloniz- ing blacks somewhere outside the United States, and late in his presidency he was urging politicians in Louisiana to consider ...
... began to awaken from his lifelong insensitivity to racial injustice. He abandoned all talk of coloniz- ing blacks somewhere outside the United States, and late in his presidency he was urging politicians in Louisiana to consider ...
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... began his life as a slave, an outsider by definition, someone with no political standing anywhere in the United States. Having escaped to New England, Douglass was free to enter public life, but he did so by joining a faction of radical ...
... began his life as a slave, an outsider by definition, someone with no political standing anywhere in the United States. Having escaped to New England, Douglass was free to enter public life, but he did so by joining a faction of radical ...
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... began to hate slavery when he was six or seven years old. In the years to come he was sometimes treated well and 0 0 sometimes with brutality, but when Frederick thought about. 4.William E. Lloyd to Frederick Douglass, June 13, 1870 ...
... began to hate slavery when he was six or seven years old. In the years to come he was sometimes treated well and 0 0 sometimes with brutality, but when Frederick thought about. 4.William E. Lloyd to Frederick Douglass, June 13, 1870 ...
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... began attending local antislavery meetings and testifying against slavery in nearby churches. In August 1841, three years after his escape, Douglass attended a con- ference of Garrisonian abolitionists on Nantucket Island. He stood up ...
... began attending local antislavery meetings and testifying against slavery in nearby churches. In August 1841, three years after his escape, Douglass attended a con- ference of Garrisonian abolitionists on Nantucket Island. He stood up ...
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... began to worry that once Douglass was abroad 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 ...
... began to worry that once Douglass was abroad 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 ...
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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