Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union
(Part of the Civil War America Series and Civil War America Series)
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In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "Great Emancipator." Lincoln always hated slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already existed, and he never imagined fighting a war to end it. In 1861, as part of a last-ditch effort to preserve the Union and prevent war, the new president even offered to accept a constitutional amendment that...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1469627310
ISBN13:9781469627311
Release Date:April 2016
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"
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