Father Abraham : Lincoln's relentless struggle to end slavery /

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"Father Abraham challenges recent portraits of Lincoln as an essentially passive politician and reluctant abolitionist. Exhaustively researched and crisply argued, this superb book gives us a new appreciation of Lincoln as moral leader."--Jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Striner, Richard, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Views on slavery.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Relations with African Americans.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865
Lincoln, Abraham > 1809-1865
Lincoln, Abraham.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
HISTORY.
Relations with African Americans
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Abschaffung
Sklaverei
Slavernij.
Abolitionisme.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Lincoln and slavery : the problem
  • Lincoln and free soil, 1854-1858
  • Lincoln and slavery : containment, 1859-1861
  • Lincoln and emancipation, 1861-1862
  • Lincoln and the war to the death, 1863
  • Lincoln and the worst-case future, 1864
  • Lincoln and the best-case future, 1864-1865.

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