The crooked path to abolition Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution
"An award-winning scholar uncovers Lincoln's strategy for abolishing slavery in this groundbreaking history of the sectional crisis and Civil War. Some celebrate Lincoln for freeing the slaves; others fault him for a long-standing conservatism on abolition and race. James Oakes gives us an...
| Main Author: | Oakes, James (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "That glorious fabric of collected wisdom" : a brief history of the antislavery Constitution
- "Freedom is the rule, slavery is the exception" : the emergence of antislavery constitutionalism
- The antislavery project : Lincoln and antislavery politics
- "My ancient faith" : Lincoln, race, and the antislavery Constitution
- The forfeiture of rights : emancipation before the proclamation
- "A king's cure" : Lincoln and the origins of the Thirteenth Amendment.