Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race

(Part of the The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Series)

by George M. Fredrickson

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"Cruel, merciful; peace-loving, a fighter; despising Negroes and letting them fight and vote; protecting slavery and freeing slaves." Abraham Lincoln was, W. E. B. Du Bois declared, "big enough to be inconsistent." Big enough, indeed, for every generation to have its own Lincoln--unifier or emancipator, egalitarian or racist. In an effort to reconcile these views, and to offer a more complex and nuanced account of a figure so central to American...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674027744

ISBN13:9780674027749

Release Date:February 2008

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:168 Pages

Weight:0.88 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 7.3"

Related Subjects

Abolition African-American & Black African-American Studies Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Civil Rights & Liberties Civil War Discrimination & Racism

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Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race

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