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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... ment with which I seized the job , may not easily be understood except by some one with an experience something like mine . The thoughts " I can work ; I can work for a living ; I am not afraid of work ; I have no Master Hugh to rob me ...
... ment with which I seized the job , may not easily be understood except by some one with an experience something like mine . The thoughts " I can work ; I can work for a living ; I am not afraid of work ; I have no Master Hugh to rob me ...
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... ment split the antislavery movement along roughly geographical lines. Abolitionists in Ohio and New York were instrumental to the Liberty Party's founding. But Douglass went to New England, where the abolitionists he met harvested his ...
... ment split the antislavery movement along roughly geographical lines. Abolitionists in Ohio and New York were instrumental to the Liberty Party's founding. But Douglass went to New England, where the abolitionists he met harvested his ...
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... ment of southern power and those who disliked slavery itself . The Free Soil platform was summed up in its name : It was dedi- cated to restricting the expansion of slavery into the western territories . 12 12. Jonathan Earle ...
... ment of southern power and those who disliked slavery itself . The Free Soil platform was summed up in its name : It was dedi- cated to restricting the expansion of slavery into the western territories . 12 12. Jonathan Earle ...
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... ment , acting under the Constitution , to abolish slavery . Second , Smith claimed that the intentions of the framers were irrelevant ; the actual written text of the Constitution and only that text should be the basis for understanding ...
... ment , acting under the Constitution , to abolish slavery . Second , Smith claimed that the intentions of the framers were irrelevant ; the actual written text of the Constitution and only that text should be the basis for understanding ...
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... ment . Viewed from this angle , the Constitution was an antislav- ery instrument , a weapon to " be wielded in behalf of emancipation . ” Antislavery politics were not merely possible but morally obligatory . The " first duty of every ...
... ment . Viewed from this angle , the Constitution was an antislav- ery instrument , a weapon to " be wielded in behalf of emancipation . ” Antislavery politics were not merely possible but morally obligatory . The " first duty of every ...
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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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