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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812502903321

Autore

Striner Richard <1950->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-280-53311-0

1-4294-0356-X

0-19-972856-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

308 p. : ill., ports

Disciplina

973.7/092

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--BOOK JACKET.