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Making an Antislavery Nation
- Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle Over Freedom
Engelsk Paperback
Making an Antislavery Nation
- Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle Over Freedom
Engelsk Paperback

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Winner of the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award This sweeping narrative presents an original and compelling explanation for the triumph of the antislavery movement in the United States prior to the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln's election as the first antislavery president was hardly preordained. From the country's inception, Americans had struggled to define slavery's relationship to freedom. Most Northerners supported abolition in the North but condoned slavery in the South, while most Southerners denounced abolition and asserted slavery's compatibility with whites' freedom. On this massive political fault line hinged the fate of the nation. Graham A. Peck meticulously traces the conflict over slavery in Illinois from the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to Lincoln's defeat of his archrival Stephen A. Douglas in the 1860 election. Douglas's attempt in 1854 to persuade Northerners that slavery and freedom had equal national standing stirred a political earthquake that brought Lincoln to the White House. Yet Lincoln's framing of the antislavery movement as a conservative return to the country's founding principles masked what was in fact a radical and unprecedented antislavery nationalism. It justified slavery's destruction but triggered the Civil War. Presenting pathbreaking interpretations of Lincoln, Douglas, and the Civil War's origins, Making an Antislavery Nation shows how battles over slavery paved the way for freedom's triumph in America.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9780252085567
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0252085566
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2020
Længde:
32mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2020
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