The Radical and the Republican
Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
By James Oakes
(W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393330656, 328pp.)
Publication Date: January 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: General, Slavery, United States - Civil War
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Description
My husband considered you a dear friend, Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln 's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States. James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.
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