Striner, Richard, 1950-

Father Abraham Lincoln's relentless struggle to end slavery / [electronic resource] : Richard Striner. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - 308 p. : ill., ports.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.








Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Views on slavery.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 --Relations with African Americans.


Slaves--Emancipation--United States.


Electronic books.

E457.2 / .S89 2006

973.7/092