AUTHOR

James Oakes

Books by James Oakes

The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln (The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center)

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