Lincoln and Emancipation |
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| Author:
| Medford, Edna Greene |
| Series title: | Concise Lincoln Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8093-3363-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2015 |
| Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $42.90 |
Book Description:
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In this succinct study, Edna Greene Medford examines the ideas and events that shaped President Lincoln's responses to slavery, following the arc of his ideological development from the beginning of the Civil War, when he aimed to pursue a course of noninterference, to his championing of slavery's destruction before the conflict ended. Throughout, Medford juxtaposes the president's motivations for advocating freedom with the aspirations of African Americans.
In this succinct study, Edna Greene Medford examines the ideas and events that shaped President Lincoln's responses to slavery, following the arc of his ideological development from the beginning of the Civil War, when he aimed to pursue a course of noninterference, to his championing of slavery's destruction before the conflict ended. Throughout, Medford juxtaposes the president's motivations for advocating freedom with the aspirations of African Americans.