Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (The W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures) by George M. Fredrickson

Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race (The W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures)

George M. Fredrickson

156 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"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 ge...

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