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

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

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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 generation to have its own Lincoln—unifier or emancipator, egalitarian or racist. In an effort to reconcile these views, and to offer a more complex and nuanced account of a figure so central to American history, this book focuses on the

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