[PDF.68zo] Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

[PDF.yq15] Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

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 | #642846 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2008-02-28 |  2008-03-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.00 x.38 x4.00l,.52 | File type: PDF | 168 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| as best they can be determined|By Kent Stafford|I was looking for a book that would give me the facts, as best they can be determined, about Lincoln's views and attitudes on slavery and race, without bias either way. This book met that criteria for me. The evidence of Lincoln's views and attitudes is presented to the reader in an objective way, and then you as the reader are|From Publishers Weekly|Based on his W.E.B. Du Bois lectures at Harvard, Stanford professor emeritus Fredrickson (Arrogance of Race) wades into a controversial arena: was Lincoln a heroic emancipator or a racist who didn't care about slaves at all? Stating

“Cruel, merciful; peace-loving, a fighter; despising Negroes and letting them fight and vote; protecting slavery and freeing slaves.” Abraham Lincoln was, W. E. B. Du Bois declared, “big enough to be inconsistent.” Big enough, indeed, for every generation to have its own Lincoln—unifier or emancipator, egalitarian or racist. In an effort to reconcile these views, and to offer a more complex and nuanced account of a figure so central to A...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)   |  George M. Fredrickson. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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