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 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 politicians. During those years ...
... 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 politicians. During those years ...
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... Lincoln and Frederick Douglass are among the people I most admire in all of nineteenth - century American his- tory ... Douglass was a reformer , and the difference , as either of them might have said , was at some point irreconcilable ...
... Lincoln and Frederick Douglass are among the people I most admire in all of nineteenth - century American his- tory ... Douglass was a reformer , and the difference , as either of them might have said , was at some point irreconcilable ...
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... Douglass constructed the image of the aggrieved cit- izen ... Douglass's seeming dogmatism rested a perfectly reason- able question : Why should he or anyone else have to settle for something less than equal rights ? That was Lincoln's ...
... Douglass constructed the image of the aggrieved cit- izen ... Douglass's seeming dogmatism rested a perfectly reason- able question : Why should he or anyone else have to settle for something less than equal rights ? That was Lincoln's ...
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... Douglass had dared imagine that one day he would be free, just as he dared imagine that he would one day be a senator. These two urges—one for freedom and the other for political life—were hard to separate in Douglass's mind. He never ...
... Douglass had dared imagine that one day he would be free, just as he dared imagine that he would one day be a senator. These two urges—one for freedom and the other for political life—were hard to separate in Douglass's mind. He never ...
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... Douglass, 1860 When Douglass escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland, he went first to New York City, where sympathetic abolitionists encouraged him to move on to more friendly terrain—not to Rochester, New York, where he eventually ...
... Douglass, 1860 When Douglass escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland, he went first to New York City, where sympathetic abolitionists encouraged him to move on to more friendly terrain—not to Rochester, New York, where he eventually ...
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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