The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Lincoln and the Triumph of Anti-Slavery Politics

by James Oakes (2007)
5.5” x 8. 25”, 328 pgs.
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 different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States. James Oakes …brings these two iconic figures to life and sheds new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America. Nonfiction.