Great White Men, Again?: On Lincoln and Our Civil Religion
…e Radicals’ vision all along which pushed and propelled a moderate such as Lincoln, such that by the end of the war Lincoln effectively had adopted all the Radical positions that he considered unthinkable in 1861. Those Radicals certainly needed the political sense of Lincoln, who had a genius for timing and “messaging” momentous actions. But Lincoln needed the Radicals, and even more the slaves who “occupied” contraband camps demanding a recognit…
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