Lincoln and the politics of slavery : the other thirteenth amendment and the struggle to save the union

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...

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Main Author: Crofts, Daniel W.
Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
Series:Civil War America
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