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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... possible for Douglass, beginning in 1851 when he announced his change of opinion, to demand “of every American citizen, whose conscience permits him so to do, to use his political as well as his moral power for [slavery's] overthrow ...
... possible for Douglass, beginning in 1851 when he announced his change of opinion, to demand “of every American citizen, whose conscience permits him so to do, to use his political as well as his moral power for [slavery's] overthrow ...
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... possible, crush all sympathy for [the Negro], and cultivate and excite hatred and disgust against him.” In stressing the Negrophobia that Lincoln did not defend, Hofstadter neglects the constitutional views that he did defend; Lincoln's ...
... possible, crush all sympathy for [the Negro], and cultivate and excite hatred and disgust against him.” In stressing the Negrophobia that Lincoln did not defend, Hofstadter neglects the constitutional views that he did defend; Lincoln's ...
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... possible , nevertheless , to exaggerate the importance of Lincoln's attention to Douglas . The events of the 1850s in which Douglas figured so prominently , as portentous in Lincoln's estimation as they no doubt were , 2 did not ...
... possible , nevertheless , to exaggerate the importance of Lincoln's attention to Douglas . The events of the 1850s in which Douglas figured so prominently , as portentous in Lincoln's estimation as they no doubt were , 2 did not ...
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... possible . They well understood that the laws and institutions which would be well adapted to the granite hills of New Hampshire would be unfit for the rice plantations of South Carolina ; they well understood that each one of the ...
... possible . They well understood that the laws and institutions which would be well adapted to the granite hills of New Hampshire would be unfit for the rice plantations of South Carolina ; they well understood that each one of the ...
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... possible for slavery to be treated as a matter of policy . The abolitionists gave voice to a sentiment that was more widely shared than their conviction of the overriding priority of the slavery question — that there is something ...
... possible for slavery to be treated as a matter of policy . The abolitionists gave voice to a sentiment that was more widely shared than their conviction of the overriding priority of the slavery question — that there is something ...
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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