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      The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders

      James Oakes (City University of New York Graduate Center)

      A sweeping and spirited history of Southern slaveholders. -David Herbert Donald

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      Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South

      James Oakes (City University of New York Graduate Center)

      The most valuable and stimulating general interpretation of the Old South to appear in recent years. -George M. Fredrickson

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      Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

      James Oakes (City University of New York Graduate Center)

      A powerful history of emancipation that reshapes our understanding of Lincoln, the Civil War, and the end of American slavery.

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      Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865

      James Oakes (City University of New York Graduate Center)

      Winner of the Lincoln Prize Oakes brilliantly succeeds in [clarifying] the aims of the war with a wholly new perspective. -David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books

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      The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War

      James Oakes (City University of New York Graduate Center)

      A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction

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      The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

      James Oakes (City University of New York Graduate Center)

      An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.

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      The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

      James Oakes (City University of New York Graduate Center)

      Finalist for the 2022 Lincoln Prize An award-winning scholar uncovers the guiding principles of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies.

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