TY - BOOK AU - Striner,Richard TI - Father Abraham: Lincoln's relentless struggle to end slavery SN - 142940356X AV - E457.2 .S89 2006eb U1 - 973.7/092 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - Lincoln, Abraham KW - Lincoln, Abraham. KW - Enslaved persons KW - Emancipation KW - United States KW - HISTORY KW - bisacsh KW - Relations with African Americans KW - fast KW - Slavery KW - Abschaffung KW - gnd KW - Sklaverei KW - Slavernij KW - gtt KW - Abolitionisme KW - Verenigde Staten N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=169188 ER -