Lincoln and the Abolitionists

by Stanley Harrold

Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019

Abraham Lincoln has often been called the "Great Emancipator." But he was not among those Americans who, decades before the Civil War, favored immediate emancipation of all slaves inside the United States. Those who did were the abolitionists--the men and women who sought freedom and equal rights for all African Americans. Stanley Harrold traces how, despite Lincoln's political distance from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809336413
• ISBN13: 9780809336418
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.1"