Big Enough to Be Inconsistent

Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race

George M. Fredrickson

    Preface

    1. A Clash of Images: Great Egalitarian or Hard-Core Racist?

    2. Free Soil, Free Labor, and Free White Men: The Illinois Years

    3. Becoming an Emancipator: The War Years

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: Big Enough to Be Inconsistent
  • A photo of the author

George M. Fredrickson was Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History Emeritus, Stanford University.

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