Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writing and Speeches (Paperback)
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Description
Incorporating famous documents and crucial letters, Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War walks you through the development where Lincoln stood on all the critical issues of the day, including free labor, antebellum politics and the Republican party, slavery, secession, the Civil War, and emancipation.
About the Author
MICHAEL P. JOHNSON(Ph.D., Stanford University) is a professor of history at the Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively, taught, and lectured on the social and political history of slavery and freedom in the Civil War era. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia (1977), No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (1984), and with James Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984). He is co-author of The American Promise: A History of the United States (Bedford/St. Martin's) and editor of Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's). "