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Lincoln's defense of politics : the public man and his opponents in the crisis over slavery / Thomas E. Schneider.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Schneider, Thomas E., 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
Series:Shades of blue and gray series.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Views on slavery.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Adversaries.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Southern States > Justification.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
Table of Contents:
  • A divided Lincoln?
  • Stephen A. Douglas : the missing constitutional basis
  • Alexander H. Stephens : slavery, secession, and the higher law
  • John C. Calhoun : the politics of interest
  • George Fitzhugh : the turn to history
  • The attack on Locke
  • Henry David Thoreau : the question of political engagement
  • William Lloyd Garrison : from disunionist to Lincoln emancipationist
  • Frederick Douglass : antislavery constitutionalism and the problem of consent
  • Freedom, political and economic
  • Between legalism and the higher law
  • Lincoln's defense of politics.

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