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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... never met. Lincoln surely knew who Frederick Douglass was, and by the fall of 1858 Frederick Douglass knew who Abraham Lincoln was, but the same would be true of anybody who read the newspapers. It would be reasonable, then, to dismiss ...
... never met. Lincoln surely knew who Frederick Douglass was, and by the fall of 1858 Frederick Douglass knew who Abraham Lincoln was, but the same would be true of anybody who read the newspapers. It would be reasonable, then, to dismiss ...
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... never mentioned Douglass by name, from the time of his earliest public expressions of opposi- tion to slavery Lincoln was sharply critical of the abolitionist movement to which Douglass faithfully belonged. He was still making the point ...
... never mentioned Douglass by name, from the time of his earliest public expressions of opposi- tion to slavery Lincoln was sharply critical of the abolitionist movement to which Douglass faithfully belonged. He was still making the point ...
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... never deviated . But just as often Douglass's high - mindedness obscured the political calculation that went into the construc- tion and reconstruction of his antislavery arguments . So long as both men stood on their respective perches ...
... never deviated . But just as often Douglass's high - mindedness obscured the political calculation that went into the construc- tion and reconstruction of his antislavery arguments . So long as both men stood on their respective perches ...
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... never as far apart as they seemed . Ironically , northern Democrats were the first to suspect that what Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had in common was far more threatening than what divided them . In 1864 , as Lincoln was ...
... never as far apart as they seemed . Ironically , northern Democrats were the first to suspect that what Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had in common was far more threatening than what divided them . In 1864 , as Lincoln was ...
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... never repeated his harshest criticism against Abraham Lincoln . And he never left the Republican Party . The Radical and the Republican r 1 " I WON'T X X II Introduction.
... never repeated his harshest criticism against Abraham Lincoln . And he never left the Republican Party . The Radical and the Republican r 1 " I WON'T X X II Introduction.
Contenido
3 | |
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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