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Lincoln's defense of politics : the public man and his opponents in the crisis over slavery /

"Examines six of Lincoln's key opponents (states' rights constitutionalists Alexander H. Stephens, John C. Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh; and abolitionists Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass) to illustrate the broad significance of the slavery question...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schneider, Thomas E., 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A divided Lincoln?
  • Stephen A. Douglas : the missing constitutional basis
  • Alexander H. Stephens : slavery, secession, and the higher law
  • John C. Calhoun : the politics of interest
  • George Fitzhugh : the turn to history
  • The attack on Locke
  • Henry David Thoreau : the question of political engagement
  • William Lloyd Garrison : from disunionist to Lincoln emancipationist
  • Frederick Douglass : antislavery constitutionalism and the problem of consent
  • Freedom, political and economic
  • Between legalism and the higher law
  • Lincoln's defense of politics.