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Father Abraham : Lincoln's relentless struggle to end slavery / Richard Striner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 142940356X
  • 9781429403566
  • 0195183061
  • 9780195183061
  • 1280533110
  • 9781280533112
  • 0199728569
  • 9780199728565
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Father Abraham.DDC classification:
  • 973.7/092 22
LOC classification:
  • E457.2 .S89 2006eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • NP 6020
Online resources:
Contents:
Lincoln and slavery : the problem -- Lincoln and free soil, 1854-1858 -- Lincoln and slavery : containment, 1859-1861 -- Lincoln and emancipation, 1861-1862 -- Lincoln and the war to the death, 1863 -- Lincoln and the worst-case future, 1864 -- Lincoln and the best-case future, 1864-1865.
Review: "Father Abraham challenges recent portraits of Lincoln as an essentially passive politician and reluctant abolitionist. Exhaustively researched and crisply argued, this superb book gives us a new appreciation of Lincoln as moral leader."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and index.

Lincoln and slavery : the problem -- Lincoln and free soil, 1854-1858 -- Lincoln and slavery : containment, 1859-1861 -- Lincoln and emancipation, 1861-1862 -- Lincoln and the war to the death, 1863 -- Lincoln and the worst-case future, 1864 -- Lincoln and the best-case future, 1864-1865.

Print version record.

"Father Abraham challenges recent portraits of Lincoln as an essentially passive politician and reluctant abolitionist. Exhaustively researched and crisply argued, this superb book gives us a new appreciation of Lincoln as moral leader."--Jacket.

English.

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