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		Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery.
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		Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
		Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
		Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
		American Civil War (1861-1865)
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		Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
		Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
		BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State.
		HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
		History -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
		Antislavery movements
		Race relations
		Racism
		Slavery
		War -- Causes.
		Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
		United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
		United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes
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		United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
		United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes

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Lincoln and the abolitionists : John Quincy Adams, slavery, and the Civil War / Fred Kaplan.

by Kaplan, Fred, author.

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]

Description:

xvi, 395 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Contents:

Preface -- A continual torment -- The first American martyr -- A difficult year -- A field of blood -- The distant goal -- The African mirage -- The Constitutional rag -- The ameliorative President -- Soft inducement -- The ultimate gradualists.

Summary:

Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.

"The acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan returns with a controversial exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints, providing perceptive insights into these two great presidents and a revealing perspective on race relations in modern America. Though the Emancipation Proclamation, limited as it was, ultimately defined his presidency, Lincoln was a man shaped by the values of the white America into which he was born. While he viewed slavery as a moral crime abhorrent to American principles, he disapproved of antislavery activists. Until the last year of his life, he advocated "voluntary deportation," concerned that free blacks in a white society would result in centuries of conflict. In 1861, he reluctantly took the nation to war to save it. While this devastating struggle would preserve the Union, it would also abolish slavery--creating the biracial democracy Lincoln feared. Years earlier, John Quincy Adams had become convinced that slavery would eventually destroy the Union. Only through civil war, sparked by a slave insurrection or secession, would slavery end and the Union be preserved. Deeply sympathetic to abolitionists and abolitionism, Adams believed that a multiracial America was inevitable. [This book], a frank look at Lincoln, "warts and all," including his limitations as a wartime leader, provides an in-depth portrait of how these two presidents came to see the issues of slavery and race, and how that understanding shaped their perspectives. Its supporting cast of characters is colorful, from the obscure to the famous: Dorcas Allen, Moses Parsons, Usher F. Linder, Elijah Lovejoy, William Channing, Wendell Phillips, Rufus King, Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson, Abigail Adams, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and Frederick Douglass, among scores of significant others. In a far-reaching historical narrative, Kaplan offers a nuanced appreciation of both these great men--Lincoln as an antislavery moralist who believed in an exclusively white America, and Adams as an antislavery activist who had no doubt that the United States would become a multiracial nation--and the events that have characterized race relations in America for more than a century, a legacy that continues to haunt us all."--Jacket.

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