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

by Fredrickson (Author), George M. (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $51.00

  Focuses on the most controversial aspect of Abraham Lincoln's thought and politics - his attitudes and actions regarding slavery and race. This book provides an account of Lincoln's contradictory treatment of black Americans in matters of slavery in the South and basic civil rights in the North.