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The Radical and the Republican Frederick Douglass Abraham Lincoln and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
Author: James Oakes

A major history of Civil War America through the lens of its two towering figures: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. — "My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery ref...  more »ormer, the president and the most famous black man in America—their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States. In this first book to draw the two together, James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history. He brings these two iconic figures to life and sheds new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780393061949
ISBN-10: 0393061949
Publication Date: 1/15/2007
Pages: 320
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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