With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham LincolnThe definitive life of Abraham Lincoln, With Malice Toward None is historian Stephen B. Oates's acclaimed and enthralling portrait of America's greatest leader. Oates masterfully charts, with the pacing of a novel, Lincoln's rise from bitter poverty in America's midwestern frontier to become a self-made success in business, law, and regional politics. The second half of the book examines his legendary leadership on the national stage as president during one of the country's most tumultuous and bloody periods, the Civil War years, which concluded tragically with Lincoln's assassination. In this award-winning biography, Lincoln steps forward out of the shadow of myth as a recognizable, fully drawn American whose remarkable life continues to inspire and inform us today. |
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... slavery . " Unlike many contemporary Southerners , who regarded blacks as subhuman , Clay did not in the matter of human rights exclude Negroes from the human race . And yet Clay himself owned slaves . " Cast into life where slavery was ...
... slavery agitation . " Under the operation of that policy , that agitation has not only , not ceased , but has constantly augmented . " In my opinion , it will not cease , until a crisis shall have been reached , and passed . " A house ...
... slaves to the Confederacy . Lincoln signed it . The Republican Congress sent him a bill which abolished slavery in Washington , D.C. , compensated the owners , and set funds aside for the voluntary colonization of freed blacks in Haiti ...
Contents
Why Should the Spirit of | 41 |
On the Pilgrimage Road | 91 |
Mighty Scourge of War | 373 |
Copyright | |
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