Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis Over Slavery"Examines six of Lincoln's key opponents (states' rights constitutionalists Alexander H. Stephens, John C. Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh; and abolitionists Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass) to illustrate the broad significance of the slavery question and to highlight the importance of political considerations in public decision making"--Provided by publisher. |
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... fact , proved to be one of Lincoln's harshest critics . Writing after Lincoln's death , Garrison's coadjutor Oliver Johnson took a more generous view of the Republicans ' antislavery motives than most aboli- tionists did while the ...
... fact , proved to be one of Lincoln's harshest critics . Writing after Lincoln's death , Garrison's coadjutor Oliver Johnson took a more generous view of the Republicans ' antislavery motives than most aboli- tionists did while the ...
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... fact irreconcilably opposed points of view on the slavery issue—has been made famous by Richard Hofstadter. As Hofstadter presents it, these opposites were not moral and legal justice: Lincoln's success was actually due to his having ...
... fact irreconcilably opposed points of view on the slavery issue—has been made famous by Richard Hofstadter. As Hofstadter presents it, these opposites were not moral and legal justice: Lincoln's success was actually due to his having ...
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... fact of which Fitzhugh presumably was aware . 17 More damningly , Harvey Wish , Fitzhugh's biographer , dismisses him as a propagandist — even if he was one worth writing a book about . Genovese refers to the proslavery argument as ...
... fact of which Fitzhugh presumably was aware . 17 More damningly , Harvey Wish , Fitzhugh's biographer , dismisses him as a propagandist — even if he was one worth writing a book about . Genovese refers to the proslavery argument as ...
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... fact that they were minor- ity views . Lincoln's attention to Douglas between 1854 and 1860 was dictated by political conditions and does not prove that Lincoln had not thought through the more radical alternatives . Lincoln's position ...
... fact that they were minor- ity views . Lincoln's attention to Douglas between 1854 and 1860 was dictated by political conditions and does not prove that Lincoln had not thought through the more radical alternatives . Lincoln's position ...
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... fact that in some parts of the Union slavery was enormously profitable, and he implies that the institution was abolished elsewhere because it had proved to be unprofitable. The fact that slavery was not profitable in the North ...
... fact that in some parts of the Union slavery was enormously profitable, and he implies that the institution was abolished elsewhere because it had proved to be unprofitable. The fact that slavery was not profitable in the North ...
Contents
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Chapter 5 George Fitzhugh The Tur to History | 54 |
Chapter 6 The Attack on Locke | 73 |
Part III Abolitionism Natural Justice and Its Limits | 85 |
Chapter 9 Frederick Douglass Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Problem of Consent | 125 |
Part IV Conclusion The Case for Politics | 145 |
Chapter 10 FreedomPolitical and Economic | 147 |
Chapter 11 Between Legalism and the Higher Law | 155 |
Chapter 12 Lincoln s Defense of Politics | 162 |
Epilogue Political Temperament | 179 |
Notes | 185 |
Works Cited | 205 |
Chapter 7 Henry David Thoreau The Question of Political Engagement | 87 |
Chapter 8 William Lloyd Garrison From Disunionist to Lincoln Emancipationist | 105 |
Index | 215 |
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