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1) The crooked path to abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution

Author

Oakes, James

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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"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 another option in this brilliant exploration of Lincoln and the end of slavery. Through the unforeseen challenges of the Civil War crisis, Lincoln and the Republican...

2) Freedom national: the destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

Author

Oakes, James

Pub. Date

[2013]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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The consensus view of the Civil War-that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory-dies here. James Oakes's groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but steadfast on principle. In the disloyal South the federal government quickly began freeing slaves, immediately and...

3) The scorpion's sting: antislavery and the coming of the Civil War

Author

Oakes, James

Pub. Date

[2014]

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternative to the war.