Big Enough to Be Inconsistent : : Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race / / George M Fredrickson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Fredrickson, George M,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674033733; 9783110442205; 9783110459517; 9783110662566
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674033733
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: George M Fredrickson.

This book focuses on the most controversial aspect of Lincoln's thought and politics - his attitudes and actions regarding slavery and race. Drawing attention to the limitations of Lincoln's judgment and policies without denying his magnitude, the book provides the most comprehensive and even-handed account available of Lincoln's contradictory treatment of black Americans in matters of slavery in the South and basic civil rights in the North.