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Ruling Race
Av James Oakes
E-bok, 2013
268 kr
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This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes''s bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. …
Slavery And Freedom
An Interpretation of the Old South
Av James Oakes
E-bok, 2013
79 kr
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This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, …
Freedom National
The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Av James Oakes
Inbunden, 2012
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
299 kr
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Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost …
Ruling Race
A History of American Slaveholders
Av James Oakes
Häftad, 1998
360 kr
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This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. …
Slavery and Freedom
An Interpretation of the Old South
Av James Oakes
Häftad, 1998
287 kr
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This pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South begins with the insight that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South. James Oakes traces the implications of this insight for relations between masters and slaves, …
Radical and the Republican
Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics
Av James Oakes
Häftad, 2008
187 kr
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“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 …
Scorpion's Sting
Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War
Av James Oakes
Häftad, 2015
258 kr
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The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition: they would surround the slave states with a cordon of freedom, constricting slavery and …
Crooked Path to Abolition
Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
Av James Oakes
Inbunden, 2021
277 kr
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The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of anti-slavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s anti-slavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and …
Crooked Path to Abolition
Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
Av James Oakes
Häftad, 2022
187 kr
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The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment …
Freedom National
The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Av James Oakes
Häftad, 2014
174 kr
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Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with the courageous actions of Union soldiers and runaway slaves in the South. It shatters the widespread conviction that the Civil War was first and foremost …
