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The acclaimed biographer, with a thought-provoking exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experience with slavery and race molded their differing viewpoints, provides both perceptive insights into both of these great presidents and a revealing point of view on race relationships in modern America. Lincoln, who in afterlife became mythologized as the fantastic Emancipator, was molded by the prices of the white America into which he was created. While he seen slavery as a moral criminal offense abhorrent to North american key points, he disapproved of antislavery activists. Before last year of his life, he advocated "voluntary deportation", worried that free blacks in a white population would bring about centuries of discord. In 1861 he previously reluctantly taken the nation to war to save it. While this devastating struggle would preserve the Union, it could also abolish slavery - creating the biracial democracy Lincoln feared. John Quincy Adams, 40 years earlier, was convinced that only a civil battle would end slavery and preserve the Union. An antislavery activist, he previously concluded that a multiracial America was inescapable. Lincoln and the Abolitionists, a frank look at Lincoln, warts and everything, has an in-depth look at how both of these presidents arrived to see the issues of slavery and race and exactly how that understanding molded their perspectives. In a far-reaching historical narrative, Fred Kaplan offers a nuanced gratitude of both these great men and the events that have characterized race relationships in the us for greater than a century - a legacy that continues to haunt people.
