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Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)
Big Enough to Be Inconsistent Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race - The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
Author: George M. Fredrickson
?Cruel, merciful; peace-loving, a fighter; despising Negroes and letting them fight and vote; protecting slavery and freeing slaves.? Abraham Lincoln was, W. E. B. Du Bois declared, ?big enough to be inconsistent.? Big enough, indeed, for every generation to have its own Lincoln?unifier or emancipator, egalitarian or racist. In an effort to reco...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674027749
ISBN-10: 0674027744
Publication Date: 2/28/2008
Pages: 168
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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