The Radical and the Republican
Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
Published on 7. February 2011
352 pages
978-0-393-07872-5 (ISBN)
Description
"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.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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978-0-393-07872-5 (9780393078725)
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James Oakes
The Radical and the Republican
Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
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01/2008
WW Norton & Co
€17.50
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James Oakes is one of our foremost Civil War historians and a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his works on the politics of abolition. He teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Content
- Intro
- Praise
- ALSO BY JAMES OAKES
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 "I Won't Stop Until I Reach the United States Senate"
- 2 "I Have Always Hated Slavery"
- 3 "I Cannot Support Lincoln"
- 4 "This Thunderbolt Will Keep"
- 5 "We Must Free the Slaves or Be Ourselves Subdued"
- 6 "My Friend Douglass"
- 7 "Had Lincoln Lived."
- For Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
