Lincoln hated slavery but he was not an abolitionist, according to Civil War historian and author James Oakes in his latest book, “The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antisl ...

In his illuminating and accessible new book, James Oakes, an acclaimed historian of emancipation, offers us a “third Lincoln”: neither the mythic Great Emancipator nor a flawed reluctant ...

Lincoln drew a clear distinction between what he felt his political duty required of him (i.e., preservation of the Union and not a forced, unilateral abolition of slavery) and what his personal ...

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, signaled the transformation of an expedient military strategy ...

Abraham Lincoln needed votes ... but to ratify the 13th amendment and clinch the abolition of slavery. All he had to do was put some finishing touches on this untamed territory to transform ...

In this dual biography of Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy ... Yet Kaplan with typical overstatement concludes that Lincoln saw slavery and abolition as equally evil. In fact, while Lincoln ...

Lincoln finally embraced what he called the Civil War’s “fundamental and astounding” result: the immediate, uncompensated abolition of slavery and recognition of blacks as American citizens.

Slaves in the remaining rebel state were unaware that President Abraham Lincoln had issued the 1863 proclamation that freed slaves in Confederate states. Slavery remained in effect after ...

Few people imagined that Abraham Lincoln would turn out to be such ... It’s possible, even tempting, to make the abolition of slavery seem as inevitable as the war itself can be made to seem ...

Wood THE CROOKED PATH TO ABOLITION Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery ... Four more joined between April and June 1861. Lincoln hated slavery as much as any abolitionist, but as an ambitious ...

Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, to inform a reluctant community that President Abraham Lincoln two ... in letting Texas know about the abolition of slavery in the United States, according ...