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Father Abraham : Lincoln's relentless struggle to end slavery / Richard Striner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Striner, Richard, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Views on slavery.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Relations with African Americans.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Physical Description:
- 308 p. : ill., ports.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Father Abraham challenges recent portraits of Lincoln as an essentially passive politician and reluctant abolitionist. Exhaustively researched and crisply argued, this superb book gives us a new appreciation of Lincoln as moral leader."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- Lincoln and slavery : the problem
- Lincoln and free soil, 1854-1858
- Lincoln and slavery : containment, 1859-1861
- Lincoln and emancipation, 1861-1862
- Lincoln and the war to the death, 1863
- Lincoln and the worst-case future, 1864
- Lincoln and the best-case future, 1864-1865.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-295) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-53311-0
- 1-4294-0356-X
- 0-19-972856-9
- OCLC:
- 756311268
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195183061
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