Father Abraham
Subtitle: Lincoln's relentless struggle to end slavery
By: Richard Striner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780195183061
Subjects: Relations with African Americans; Emancipation; Views on slavery; Slaves
Description: "Father Abraham challenges recent portraits of Lincoln as an essentially passive politician and reluctant abolitionist. Exhaustively researched and crisply argued, this superb book gives us a new appreciation of Lincoln as moral leader."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lincoln and slavery : the problem; title: Lincoln and free soil, 1854-1858; title: Lincoln and slavery : containment, 1859-1861; title: Lincoln and emancipation, 1861-1862; title: Lincoln and the war to the death, 1863; title: Lincoln and the worst-case future, 1864; title: Lincoln and the best-case future, 1864-1865.