Lincoln's defense of politics the public man and his opponents in the crisis over slavery /
"Examines six of Lincoln's key opponents (states' rights constitutionalists Alexander H. Stephens, John C. Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh; and abolitionists Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass) to illustrate the broad significance of the slavery question and to highligh...
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
c2006.
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| גישה מקוונת: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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תוכן הענינים:
- A divided Lincoln?
- Stephen A. Douglas : the missing constitutional basis
- Alexander H. Stephens : slavery, secession, and the higher law
- John C. Calhoun : the politics of interest
- George Fitzhugh : the turn to history
- The attack on Locke
- Henry David Thoreau : the question of political engagement
- William Lloyd Garrison : from disunionist to Lincoln emancipationist
- Frederick Douglass : antislavery constitutionalism and the problem of consent
- Freedom, political and economic
- Between legalism and the higher law
- Lincoln's defense of politics.