Lincoln's Defense of Politics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis Over Slavery"Examines six of Lincoln's key opponents (states' rights constitutionalists Alexander H. Stephens, John C. Calhoun, and George Fitzhugh; and abolitionists Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, and Frederick Douglass) to illustrate the broad significance of the slavery question and to highlight the importance of political considerations in public decision making"--Provided by publisher. |
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... favor of political action against slavery. Storing regarded civil disobedience, whether in its nine- teenth-century abolitionist form or in the form practiced by Martin Luther King and his followers in the twentieth century, as an ...
... favor of political action against slavery. Storing regarded civil disobedience, whether in its nine- teenth-century abolitionist form or in the form practiced by Martin Luther King and his followers in the twentieth century, as an ...
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... favor of main- taining the Union , it was not the first time he had resisted sectionalism . As a member of Congress he had joined Lincoln in registering opposi- tion to the Mexican War , defying President James Polk , a fellow south ...
... favor of main- taining the Union , it was not the first time he had resisted sectionalism . As a member of Congress he had joined Lincoln in registering opposi- tion to the Mexican War , defying President James Polk , a fellow south ...
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... favor of slavery from the alleged intellectual inferiority of the black race. Whether this argu- ment is founded in fact or not, I will not now stop to inquire, but merely say that if it proves anything at all, it proves Alexander H ...
... favor of slavery from the alleged intellectual inferiority of the black race. Whether this argu- ment is founded in fact or not, I will not now stop to inquire, but merely say that if it proves anything at all, it proves Alexander H ...
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... favor of secession , “ thus wisely deflected demands for his own response . ” 18 Nevertheless , in the end it was the fire - eating Toombs and his associates that won the day . If it were as true in law and politics as it is in ...
... favor of secession , “ thus wisely deflected demands for his own response . ” 18 Nevertheless , in the end it was the fire - eating Toombs and his associates that won the day . If it were as true in law and politics as it is in ...
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Contents
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Chapter 5 George Fitzhugh The Tur to History | 54 |
Chapter 6 The Attack on Locke | 73 |
Part III Abolitionism Natural Justice and Its Limits | 85 |
Chapter 9 Frederick Douglass Antislavery Constitutionalism and the Problem of Consent | 125 |
Part IV Conclusion The Case for Politics | 145 |
Chapter 10 FreedomPolitical and Economic | 147 |
Chapter 11 Between Legalism and the Higher Law | 155 |
Chapter 12 Lincoln s Defense of Politics | 162 |
Epilogue Political Temperament | 179 |
Notes | 185 |
Works Cited | 205 |
Chapter 7 Henry David Thoreau The Question of Political Engagement | 87 |
Chapter 8 William Lloyd Garrison From Disunionist to Lincoln Emancipationist | 105 |
Index | 215 |
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