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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

by James Oakes

An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a str

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

256

ISBN

9781324005858