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Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom
Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom

Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom

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Graham A. Peck meticulously traces the conflict over slavery in Illinois from the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 to Lincoln's defeat of his archrival Stephen A. Douglas in the 1860 election. Douglas's attempt in 1854 to persuade Northerners that slavery and freedom had equal national standing stirred a political earthquake that brought Lincoln to the White House. Yet Lincoln's framing of the antislavery movement as a conservative return to the country's founding principles masked what was in fact a radical and unprecedented antislavery nationalism. It justified slavery's destruction but triggered the Civil War. Presenting pathbreaking interpretations of Lincoln, Douglas, and the Civil War's origins, shows how battles over slavery paved the way for freedom's triumph in America.
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