The Crooked Path To Abolition

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The Crooked Path To Abolition

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Author : James Oakes
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2021-01-12

The Crooked Path To Abolition written by James Oakes and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-12 with History categories.

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 striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery, and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the Constitution empowered direct federal action—in the western territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade—they intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the territories to slavery by the Kansas–Nebraska Act. He attempted to persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King’s cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in 1865 finally abolished slavery.

The Scorpion S Sting Antislavery And The Coming Of The Civil War

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Author : James Oakes
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2014-05-19

The Scorpion S Sting Antislavery And The Coming Of The Civil War written by James Oakes and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-19 with History categories.

Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternative to the war.

Thoughts Upon Slavery

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Author : John Wesley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1774

Thoughts Upon Slavery written by John Wesley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1774 with Slavery categories.

A Week In The Life Of A Slave

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Author : John Byron
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2019-07-02

A Week In The Life Of A Slave written by John Byron and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Religion categories.

Paul's epistle to Philemon is one of the shortest books in the entire Bible, and it certainly leaves plenty to the imagination. From the pen of an accomplished New Testament scholar, this vivid historical fiction account follows the slave Onesimus, fleshing out the lived context of first-century Ephesus and providing a social and theological critique of slavery in the Roman Empire.

America And Iran

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Author : John Ghazvinian
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2021-01-26

America And Iran written by John Ghazvinian and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with History categories.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hugely ambitious, “delightfully readable, genuinely informative” portrait (The New York Times) of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America—two powers who were once allies and now adversaries—by an admired historian and former journalist. In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the eighteenth century—the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams—and an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate for their own government. Drawing on years of archival research both in the United States and Iran—including access to Iranian government archives rarely available to Western scholars—the Iranian-born, Oxford-educated historian leads us through the four seasons of U.S.–Iran relations: the spring of mutual fascination; the summer of early interactions; the autumn of close strategic ties; and the long, dark winter of mutual hatred. Ghazvinian makes clear where, how, and when it all went wrong. America and Iran shows why two countries that once had such heartfelt admiration for each other became such committed enemies—and why it didn’t have to turn out this way.

Radical And The Republican

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Author : James Oakes
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2007-12-25

Radical And The Republican written by James Oakes and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-25 with History categories.

"A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker “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 reformer, 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. James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.

The Broken Constitution

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Author : Noah Feldman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2021-11-02

The Broken Constitution written by Noah Feldman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with History categories.

A groundbreaking look at how Abraham Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it for a nation divided. In The Broken Constitution, Noah Feldman presents an innovative account of Abraham Lincoln as a constitutional thinker and doer. Revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and commitment to liberty and justice for all, Lincoln led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution. But how did Lincoln understand and shape the Constitution? Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately violated the United States' founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding, that civil liberties could be suspended by Congress but not the president during a rebellion, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. Lincoln broke decisively with these precedents, effectively rewriting the Constitution's place in the American system. The Broken Constitution offers a riveting narrative of Lincoln's constitutional choices and how he made them, placing Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to his Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was a compromise pact between states; after Lincoln, it became a sacred text embodying the nation's highest ideals. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations

American Slavery As It Is

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839

American Slavery As It Is written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with categories.

The Ruling Race

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Author : James Oakes
language : en
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Release Date : 1982

The Ruling Race written by James Oakes and has been published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with History categories.

"A sweeping and spirited history of Southern slaveholders."—David Herbert Donald

The Freedmen S Book

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Author : Lydia Maria Child
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869

The Freedmen S Book written by Lydia Maria Child and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with African Americans categories.