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Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery - The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union (Hardcover)
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Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery - The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union (Hardcover)
Series: Civil War America
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In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known
episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life:
his role as the ""Great Emancipator."" Lincoln always hated
slavery, but he also believed it to be legal where it already
existed, and he never imagined fighting a war to end it. In 1861,
as part of a last-ditch effort to preserve the Union and prevent
war, the new president even offered to accept a constitutional
amendment that barred Congress from interfering with slavery in the
slave states. Lincoln made this key overture in his first inaugural
address. Crofts unearths the hidden history and political
maneuvering behind the stillborn attempt to enact this amendment,
the polar opposite of the actual Thirteenth Amendment of 1865 that
ended slavery. This compelling book sheds light on an overlooked
element of Lincoln's statecraft and presents a relentlessly honest
portrayal of America's most admired president. Crofts rejects the
view advanced by some Lincoln scholars that the wartime momentum
toward emancipation originated well before the first shots were
fired. Lincoln did indeed become the ""Great Emancipator,"" but he
had no such intention when he first took office. Only amid the
crucible of combat did the war to save the Union become a war for
freedom.
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