The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2022. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. An exceptional copy.
xxxii, 256 pp. The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes's brilliant history.....