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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
By Oakes, James
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- 9781324005858
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- Norton
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Starred Review on December 1, 2020 | Social Sciences
Radical abolitionists, such as William Lloyd Garrison, decried the U.S. Constitution as a, "pact with the devil," for its support of slavery. But the Constitution does not clearly address the issue of slavery. Award-winning Civil War historian Oakes (Graduate Center, CUNY; The Scorpion's Sting) shows how the Constitutional compromises forged by the Founding Fathers led to much ambiguity and dissension. Beginning in the 1820s, an "Antislavery Projec...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
