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"inauthor:"James Oakes"", источник: books.google.com
"Traces the history of emancipation and its impact on the Civil War, discussing how Lincoln and the Republicans fought primarily for freeing slaves throughout the war, not just as a secondary objective in an effort to restore the country"- ...
"inauthor:"James Oakes"", источник: books.google.com
James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.
"inauthor:"James Oakes"", источник: books.google.com
Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more ...
"inauthor:"James Oakes"", источник: books.google.com
Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section.
"inauthor:"James Oakes"", источник: books.google.com
The essays in this volume paint a vivid picture of a young nation and its sixteenth president, arguably its greatest leader.
"inauthor:"James Oakes"", источник: books.google.com
But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the United States.
"inauthor:"James Oakes"", источник: books.google.com
James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, slaveholders and non-slaveholders, and for the rise of a racist ideology.
"inauthor:"James Oakes"", источник: books.google.com
Of the People: A History of the United States, Third Edition, not only tells the history of America--of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals--but it also unfolds the story of American democracy, carefully marking how this ...
"inauthor:"James Oakes"", источник: books.google.com
A comprehensive and valuable reader, Knowing Him by Heart examines Lincoln’s still-evolving place in Black American thought.