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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... took eighteen months for Abraham Lincoln to proclaim emancipation—too much time, in Frederick Douglass's view. But it took a long time for Frederick Douglass to appreciate the constraints that American democracy placed on antislavery ...
... took eighteen months for Abraham Lincoln to proclaim emancipation—too much time, in Frederick Douglass's view. But it took a long time for Frederick Douglass to appreciate the constraints that American democracy placed on antislavery ...
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... took so long for them to come together. So I've brought them together in this book, standing them side by side, so as to measure them in each other's light and see them from each other's perspective. Here are two men whose historical ...
... took so long for them to come together. So I've brought them together in this book, standing them side by side, so as to measure them in each other's light and see them from each other's perspective. Here are two men whose historical ...
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... took notice of Abraham Lincoln.1 Douglass liked what he saw, especially the address Lincoln had given at the outset of his campaign for the Senate. It was Lincoln's famous “House Divided” speech, and Douglass quoted it approvingly and ...
... took notice of Abraham Lincoln.1 Douglass liked what he saw, especially the address Lincoln had given at the outset of his campaign for the Senate. It was Lincoln's famous “House Divided” speech, and Douglass quoted it approvingly and ...
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... took some time for Lincoln to reach the conclusion that slavery and freedom were locked in a war to the death. It is even more astonishing that Frederick Douglass had, for several years, made the same conclusion the central theme of his ...
... took some time for Lincoln to reach the conclusion that slavery and freedom were locked in a war to the death. It is even more astonishing that Frederick Douglass had, for several years, made the same conclusion the central theme of his ...
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... took some things on trust. Subsequent experience and reading have led me to examine for myself.This has brought me to other conclusions. When I was a child,I thought and spoke as a child.5 —Frederick Douglass, 1860 When Douglass escaped ...
... took some things on trust. Subsequent experience and reading have led me to examine for myself.This has brought me to other conclusions. When I was a child,I thought and spoke as a child.5 —Frederick Douglass, 1860 When Douglass escaped ...
Contenido
I Have Always Hated Slavery | 39 |
I Cannot Support Lincoln | 87 |
0 | 105 |
4 | 133 |
5 | 173 |
6 | 209 |
7 | 247 |
For Further Reading | 289 |
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