Fredrickson, George M.,  1934-2008. <br/><br/>
Big enough to be inconsistent :  Abraham Lincoln confronts slavery and race / 
George M. Fredrickson. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Press,  2008. 
 - xi, 156 pages ;  19 cm. 
 - The W.E.B. Du Bois lectures .
 - W.E.B. Du Bois lectures. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-145) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674027749 0674027744 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007034018 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA804318  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Political and social views.<br/>Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Relations with African Americans.<br/>Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. <br/>Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 <br/>Lincoln, Abraham.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800-1899 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery--Political aspects--History--United States--19th century.<br/>African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.<br/>States' rights (American politics)--History--19th century.<br/>Federal government--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Presidents--United States--Biography.<br/>African Americans--Civil rights.<br/>Federal government.<br/>Political and social views.<br/>Presidents.<br/>Relations with African Americans.<br/>Slavery--Political aspects.<br/>States' rights (American politics)<br/>Slavernij.<br/>Rassenverhoudingen.<br/>Ethnische Beziehungen<br/>Sklaverei
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biography.<br/>History.<br/>Biographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E457.2  / .F786 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.7092