Big enough to be inconsistent : Abraham Lincoln confronts slavery and race /

Big enough to be inconsistent : Abraham Lincoln confronts slavery and race /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fredrickson, George M., 1934-2008
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Series:W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Relations with African Americans.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 19th century.
States' rights (American politics) > History > 19th century.
Federal government > United States > History > 19th century.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • A clash of images: great egalitarian or hard-core racist?
  • Free soil, free labor, and free white men: the Illinois years
  • Becoming an emancipator: the war years.