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The radical and the Republican; Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery politics.(Brief article)(Book review)

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The radical and the Republican; Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the triumph of antislavery politics.

Oakes, James.

W.W. Norton

2007

328 pages

$26.95

Hardcover

E449

Oakes (history, City U. of New York) examines how the abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass, and the pragmatic anti-slavery politician, President Abraham Lincoln, began from positions of relative mutual antipathy--with Douglass frequently denouncing Lincoln's compromises and Lincoln just as frequently taking care to personally disavow the ...

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