The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution by James Oakes

The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

James Oakes

288 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strat...

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