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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... rejection of civil disobedience in favor of political action against slavery. Storing regarded civil disobedience, whether in its nine- teenth-century abolitionist form or in the form practiced by Martin Luther King and his followers in ...
... rejection of civil disobedience in favor of political action against slavery. Storing regarded civil disobedience, whether in its nine- teenth-century abolitionist form or in the form practiced by Martin Luther King and his followers in ...
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... rejected politics because politicians and, what is sometimes forgotten, their constituents have permitted such injustices as slavery to continue. By contrast, few scholars of the Civil War period have regarded George Fitzhugh as worthy ...
... rejected politics because politicians and, what is sometimes forgotten, their constituents have permitted such injustices as slavery to continue. By contrast, few scholars of the Civil War period have regarded George Fitzhugh as worthy ...
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... rejecting the doctrine , so they had agreed to keep it , with this exception . A shrewd propagandist for slavery , then , would have sought to justify the exception , thereby assuring whites that the enslavement of blacks presented no ...
... rejecting the doctrine , so they had agreed to keep it , with this exception . A shrewd propagandist for slavery , then , would have sought to justify the exception , thereby assuring whites that the enslavement of blacks presented no ...
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... rejected the more radical alternatives that at any event were unacceptable to all but an inconsequential minority of Illinoisans . The question is whether their rejection of these alterna- tives was based on something more than the fact ...
... rejected the more radical alternatives that at any event were unacceptable to all but an inconsequential minority of Illinoisans . The question is whether their rejection of these alterna- tives was based on something more than the fact ...
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... rejected the possibility that the Union could con- tinue permanently divided between free and slave states . Douglas , by contrast , had staked his political fortunes on just the possibility that Lincoln rejected . The thrust of ...
... rejected the possibility that the Union could con- tinue permanently divided between free and slave states . Douglas , by contrast , had staked his political fortunes on just the possibility that Lincoln rejected . The thrust of ...
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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