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Named Person: | Abraham Lincoln; Abraham Lincoln |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric Foner |
ISBN: | 039334066X 9780393340662 |
OCLC Number: | 1039332569 |
Target Audience: | Adult |
Description: | xxi, 426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 221 cm |
Contents: | "I am naturally anti-slavery" : young Abraham Lincoln and slavery -- "Always a whig" : slavery, the law, and the second party system -- "The monstrous injustice" : becoming a republican -- "A house divided" : slavery and race in the late 1850s -- "The only substantial difference" : Secession and Civil War -- "I must have Kentucky" : the border strategy -- "Forever free" : the coming of emancipation -- "A new birth of freedom" : securing emancipation -- "A fitting, and necessary conclusion" : abolition, reelection, and the challenge of reconstruction -- Epilogue "Every drop of blood" : the meaning of the war. |
Responsibility: | Eric Foner. |
Abstract:
Follows the life and career of Abraham Lincoln and the development of his anti-slavery sentiments, discusses his position that the institution was protected by the Constitution in the original slave states, and looks at the measured steps he took after the Kansas-Nebraska Act made the expansion of slavery a national issue.
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