THE W. E. B. DU BOIS LECTURES
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Big Enough to Be Inconsistent

Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race

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$41.00 • £35.95 • €37.95

ISBN 9780674027749

Publication Date: 02/28/2008

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  • 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

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