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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... moved from a position of mutual incomprehension to one of mutual admira- tion and respect , one great man taking the measure of another great man . " -Garry Wills , author of Lincoln at Gettysburg " James Oakes has an uncanny feel for ...
... moved from a position of mutual incomprehension to one of mutual admira- tion and respect , one great man taking the measure of another great man . " -Garry Wills , author of Lincoln at Gettysburg " James Oakes has an uncanny feel for ...
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... moved up rather than down, ascending to some of his finest, most poetic denunciations of human slavery.When Lincoln pro- claimed that every man, black or white, had an inalienable right to the fruits of his own labor, Douglas was driven ...
... moved up rather than down, ascending to some of his finest, most poetic denunciations of human slavery.When Lincoln pro- claimed that every man, black or white, had an inalienable right to the fruits of his own labor, Douglas was driven ...
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... moved toward a radical position on equal rights. Lincoln overthrew his lifelong conviction that the Constitution ... moves or, at the very least, moves in a radical direction. To a committed aboli- tionist like Frederick Douglass, the ...
... moved toward a radical position on equal rights. Lincoln overthrew his lifelong conviction that the Constitution ... moves or, at the very least, moves in a radical direction. To a committed aboli- tionist like Frederick Douglass, the ...
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... moved by forces greater than any one man . As a reformer Douglass preferred to position himself on America's left flank ; he would hold fast to the moral high ground no matter how great the forces arrayed against him . Lincoln's ...
... moved by forces greater than any one man . As a reformer Douglass preferred to position himself on America's left flank ; he would hold fast to the moral high ground no matter how great the forces arrayed against him . Lincoln's ...
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... move on to more friendly terrain—not to Rochester, New York, where he eventually ended up, but to New Bedford, Massachusetts. There Douglass quickly discovered William Lloyd Garrison's fiery antislavery paper, The Liberator. He became ...
... move on to more friendly terrain—not to Rochester, New York, where he eventually ended up, but to New Bedford, Massachusetts. There Douglass quickly discovered William Lloyd Garrison's fiery antislavery paper, The Liberator. He became ...
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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