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The Crooked Path to Abolition - Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution (Paperback)
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The Crooked Path to Abolition - Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution (Paperback)
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The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has
often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of
antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's
brilliant history of Lincoln's antislavery strategies reveals a
striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The
linchpin of antislavery for Lincoln was the Constitution of the
United States. Lincoln adopted the antislavery view that the
Constitution made freedom the rule in the United States, slavery
the exception. Where federal power prevailed, so did freedom. Where
state power prevailed, that state determined the status of slavery,
and the federal government could not interfere. It would take state
action to achieve the final abolition of American slavery. With
this understanding, Lincoln and his antislavery allies used every
tool available to undermine the institution. Wherever the
Constitution empowered direct federal action-in the western
territories, in the District of Columbia, over the slave trade-they
intervened. As a congressman in 1849 Lincoln sponsored a bill to
abolish slavery in Washington, DC. He reentered politics in 1854 to
oppose what he considered the unconstitutional opening of the
territories to slavery by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. He attempted to
persuade states to abolish slavery by supporting gradual abolition
with compensation for slaveholders and the colonization of free
Blacks abroad. President Lincoln took full advantage of the
antislavery options opened by the Civil War. Enslaved people who
escaped to Union lines were declared free. The Emancipation
Proclamation, a military order of the president, undermined slavery
across the South. It led to abolition by six slave states, which
then joined the coalition to affect what Lincoln called the "King's
cure": state ratification of the constitutional amendment that in
1865 finally abolished slavery.
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