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Author:

Fredrickson, George M., 1934-2008.

Title:

Big enough to be inconsistent : Abraham Lincoln confronts slavery and race / George M. Fredrickson.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xi, 156 pages ; 19 cm.

Subject:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Relations with African Americans.
Slavery--History--United States--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
States' rights (American politics)--History--19th century.
Federal government--United States--History--19th century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Federal government.
Political and social views.
Presidents.
Relations with African Americans.
Slavery--Political aspects.
States' rights (American politics)
United States.
Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865
Ethnische Beziehungen
Sklaverei
Slavernij.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Relations with African Americans.
Slavery--History--United States--History--19th century.
African Americans--History--History--19th century.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
United States of America.
Heads of State and Heads of government.
Slavery.
Race and nationality.
Racism.
Ethnic minorities.
Civil and political rights.
Government.
Politics.
History.
Lincoln, Abraham.
1800-1899
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-145) and index.

Contents:

A clash of images: great egalitarian or hard-core racist? -- Free soil, free labor, and free white men: the Illinois years -- Becoming an emancipator: the war years.

Summary:

An in-depth account of Abraham Lincoln's thought and politics focuses on his contradictory treatment of black Americans in matters of slavery in the South and basic civil rights in the North, revealing how Lincoln's firm abolitionist ideas were balanced by his commitment to the rights of the states and the limitations of federal power.

Series:

The W.E.B. Du Bois lectures

ISBN:

0674027744
9780674027749

OCLC:

(OCoLC)167763975

LCCN:

2007034018

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington) — Copies: 15