Book World: Working to end slavery, Lincoln found power - and limits - in the Constitution
Book World: Working to end slavery, Lincoln found power - and limits - in the Constitution Elizabeth R. Varon, The Washington Post Jan. 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By James Oakes - - - In his illuminating and accessible new book, James Oakes, an acclaimed historian of emancipation, offers us a "third Lincoln": neither the mythic Great Emancipator nor a flawed reluctant emancipator, but instead a committed proponent of antislavery constitutionalism. Lincoln, Oakes argues in "The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution," consistently upheld the "federal co...
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