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Father Abraham [electronic resource] : Lincoln's relentless struggle to end slavery / Richard Striner.

By: Striner, Richard, 1950-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: 308 p. : ill., ports.Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Relations with African Americans | Slaves -- Emancipation -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7/092 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Review: "Father Abraham challenges recent portraits of Lincoln as an essentially passive politician and reluctant abolitionist. Exhaustively researched and crisply argued, this superb book gives us a new appreciation of Lincoln as moral leader."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-295) and index.

"Father Abraham challenges recent portraits of Lincoln as an essentially passive politician and reluctant abolitionist. Exhaustively researched and crisply argued, this superb book gives us a new appreciation of Lincoln as moral leader."--BOOK JACKET.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.