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 with Bob Souer (Narrator)

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An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln's antislavery strategies. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery the exception. Where federal power prevail...

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