Big enough to be inconsistent : Abraham Lincoln confronts slavery and race / George M. Fredrickson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: W.E.B. Du Bois lecturesPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.Description: xi, 156 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674027749
  • 0674027744
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Big enough to be inconsistent.DDC classification:
  • 973.7092 22
LOC classification:
  • E457.2 .F786 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
A clash of images: great egalitarian or hard-core racist? -- Free soil, free labor, and free white men: the Illinois years -- Becoming an emancipator: the war years.
Summary: An in-depth account of Abraham Lincoln's thought and politics focuses on his contradictory treatment of black Americans in matters of slavery in the South and basic civil rights in the North, revealing how Lincoln's firm abolitionist ideas were balanced by his commitment to the rights of the states and the limitations of federal power.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-145) and index.

A clash of images: great egalitarian or hard-core racist? -- Free soil, free labor, and free white men: the Illinois years -- Becoming an emancipator: the war years.

An in-depth account of Abraham Lincoln's thought and politics focuses on his contradictory treatment of black Americans in matters of slavery in the South and basic civil rights in the North, revealing how Lincoln's firm abolitionist ideas were balanced by his commitment to the rights of the states and the limitations of federal power.

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