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Freedom National: The Destruction Of Slavery In The United States, 1861–1865
A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that join...
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The Scorpion'S Sting: Antislavery And The Coming Of The Civil War
Surrounded by a ring of fire, the scorpion stings itself to death. The image, widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War, captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition...
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Slavery And Freedom
"The most valuable and stimulating general interpretation of the Old South to appear in recent years."—George M. FredricksonPublishers WeeklyIn a rich, challenging set of interpretive essays, Oakes...
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Of The People: A Concise History Of The United States, Volume II: Since 1865
By Oakes, James., Jan Ellen Lewis, James Oakes, Michael McGerr, Nick Cullather, Jeanne Boydston
Of the People: A Concise History of the United States not only tells the history of America—of its people and places, of its dealings and ideals—but it also unfolds the story of American democracy,...
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The Scorpion'S Sting: Antislavery And The Coming Of The Civil War
A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction The image of a scorpion surrounded by a ring of fire, stinging itself to death, was widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War. It captur...
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Freedom National: The Destruction Of Slavery In The United States, 1861-1865
A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that join...
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The Scorpion'S Sting: Antislavery And The Coming Of The Civil War
Surrounded by a ring of fire, the scorpion stings itself to death. The image, widespread among antislavery leaders before the Civil War, captures their long-standing strategy for peaceful abolition...
Read More
Freedom National: The Destruction Of Slavery In The United States, 1861-1865
Winner of the Lincoln Prize "Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective." —David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books Freedom National is a ground...
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