The crooked path to abolition : Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution

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The crooked path to abolition : Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution

Title remainder

Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution

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James Oakes

Creator

• Oakes, James

Author

• Oakes, James

Subject

• Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Constitutional history -- United States
• Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views
• Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"An award-winning scholar uncovers Lincoln's strategy for abolishing slavery in this groundbreaking history of the sectional crisis and Civil War. Some celebrate Lincoln for freeing the slaves; others fault him for a long-standing conservatism on abolition and race. James Oakes gives us another option in this brilliant exploration of Lincoln and the end of slavery. Through the unforeseen challenges of the Civil War crisis, Lincoln and the Republican party adhered to a clear antislavery strategy founded onthe Constitution itself. All understood the limits to federal power in the slave states, and the need for state action to abolish slavery finally. But Lincoln and the Republicans claimed strong constitutional tools for federal action against slavery, andthey used those tools consistently to undermine slavery, prevent its expansion, and pressure the slave states into abolition. This antislavery Constitution guided Lincoln and his allies as they navigated the sectional crisis and the Civil War. When the states finally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, it was a confirmation of a long-held vision"--

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973.7/14

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index present

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non fiction

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bibliography