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Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History In 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared his hatred for the institution of slavery, likening his feelings of opposition to those of the abolitionists. Although the fact that Lincoln always disliked slavery is indisputable, the idea that he always opposed it with the zeal and fervor of the abolitionists remains questionable. Only four years prior to his bold declaration, Lincoln admittedly paid little attention to slavery, viewing it as only a minor issue. But in the six years preceding his presidency, his antislavery stance underwent dramatic change. Fueled by political ambition, Lincoln's argument against slavery and his prescription for dealing with it moved from what he initially labeled a middle-ground stance to a more radical position. Robert W. Johannsen's Lincoln, the South, and Slavery traces the political dimension of Lincoln's antislavery stance as it evolved from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 to his election as president in 1860. Whereas previous scholars have largely ignored the political character of Lincoln's antislavery argument, Johannsen sees Lincoln as an astute and ambitious politician whose statements where shaped and directed by the time's ever-changing political exigencies and considerations. Johannsen does not demean the quality of Lincoln's sincerity or downgrade the importance of his moral convictions on the slavery issue, but he does suggest that politics played a larger role than previously acknowledged in the form these convictions took. The four chapters that compose this work connect Lincoln's position with his attitude toward the South and Southerners, from his initial appeal to Southerners at a time when he sought to revitalize the dying Whig party, through his deepening involvement in the Republican party, to his final belief that the South and Southern interests no longer needed to be considered as factors determining his national political success. Johannsen focuses on Lincoln's debut in 1854 as an antislavery speaker, on the development of his stand for the ultimate extinction of slavery, on his espression of the doctrine of the irrepressible conflict, and finally on Lincoln's and the South's perceptions of each other in 1860. As no other work has done, Lincoln, the South, and Slavery shows how Lincoln, in response to the demands of politics, became increasingly anti-slavery and anti-Southern during the 1850s. It will be a welcome contribution to the ongoing debate about the enigma of Lincoln and about his role in the coming of the Civil War.
- Sales Rank: #2983599 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Louisiana State University Press
- Published on: 1993-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .32" w x 5.51" l, .41 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
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In 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared his hatred for the institution of slavery, likening his feelings of opposition to those of the abolitionists. Although it is an indisputable fact that Lincoln always disliked slavery, the idea that he always opposed it with the zeal and fervor of the abolitionists remains questionable. Only four years prior to his bold declaration, Lincoln admittedly paid little attention to slavery, viewing it as only a minor issue. But in the six years preceding his presidency, his antislavery ideology and his prescription for dealing with it moved from what he initially labeled a middle-ground stance to a more radical position.As no other work has don, Lincoln, the South, and Slavery shows how Lincoln, in response to the demands of politics, became increasingly antislavery and antisouthern during the 1850's.
About the Author
Robert W. Johannsen is J.G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana and the author of several books, most recently The Frontier, The Union, and Stephen A. Douglas.
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A. Lincoln: A Blundering Politician?
By Frances C. Fowler
"Lincoln, the South, and Slavery" is a short book (124 pages) by historian Robert Johannsen, better known for his work on Stephen A. Douglas. Based on five lectures delivered at two different places, the book traces the evolution of Lincoln's views on slavery and the South between 1854 and 1860, concluding with a chapter that describes and critiques Lincoln's behavior between his nomination for president and his inauguration.
Johannsen draws on extensive primary source material, including Lincoln's speeches and correspondence, contemporary newspaper articles and editorials, some of Douglas's speeches, and early accounts by people who knew Lincoln. The major thesis of the book is that Lincoln was a master politician whose thinking developed at least partly in response to the ever changing political situation but who failed to exercise true statesmanship when the Southern sates began to secede.
In his introduction Johannsen discusses how difficult it is to approach Lincoln as a historical figure rather than as a demigod. Nevertheless, his objective is to apply standard methods of historical analysis to the sixteenth president. In my opinion, he largely succeeds. Anyone who has read much about Lincoln knows that the vast majority of writing about him is uncritically favorable, ranging from blatant hagiography to evaluations of his presidency that omit or skim over his more questionable statements and actions in order to rank him as one of the greatest statesmen of all time. A much smaller body of literature is fiercely hostile and vituperative. Johannsen's book falls somewhere in between. He believes that Lincoln sometimes contradicted himself, said things in private that he refused to say in public, and could be extremely obtuse. In short, he presents Lincoln as a very human president.
The most critical chapter is the last one, in which the author depicts Lincoln and his party as focusing so intently on winning the 1860 election and deciding how to distribute the patronage that they gave little thought to how they would govern the country once they were in charge. As a result, they failed to take Southern threats of secession seriously. Lincoln himself seems to have been in deep denial; as late as February 1861--after seven states had seceded and formed a rival government--he assured a Midwestern audience that there was no crisis.
This is a valuable book for anyone who seeks to understand the extent to which "blundering politicians" failed to deal effectively with the political crisis that led to the Civil War and is willing to consider the possibility that Lincoln was one of the chief blunderers.
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Good Read on the first American Dictator
By the1911patriot
I enjoyed this well researched book concerning Lincoln, whom I hold to have been the first U.S. president to twist his office into that of a dictator. Much more could be said about Lincoln, but this book was written solely concerning his views on slavery. I would recommend this to a friend interested in Lincoln.
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Outstanding information, presented in a disappointing way.
By Mark D C
Love the information in the book! Very small book, an easy read, by a man who apparently spent most of his life studying what happened leading up to the Civil War.
Sadly, he seems eager to defend Douglas,
The book's name could have been "Lincoln, the South, and Stephen A Douglas" because much of the book is about Douglas -- Johannsen was a Douglas biographer, and here, he comes to the Little Giant's defense.
In tone, more than anything, Johannsen kinda paints Lincoln as the political schemer, and Douglas as a sincere man out to solve an "unfortunate problem" of the spread of slavery.
Johannsen does include a more than few bits of information not generally known -such as, others, before Douglas, spoke about the repeal of Missouri Compromise. Yet Johannses extrapolates that to devalue Lincoln's reaction to Douglas actual repeal of the "Compromise". As if some words spoken in 1852 by some Senator Dixon ,males Douglas support of Southern deviousl machinations, were not the fraulently, lethal, and deadly actions they were. Douglas did not necessarily intend to cause a Civil War, but he gave "high hopes" to Jeff Davis and David Rice Atchison, that they could trick and terrorize Kansas into quick capitulation on slavery. They were wrong -- and wrong, interestingly enough, because of the speed of communication. This was the first time those who killed and terrorized to spread slavery were exposed in the same day, or same week, as the violence took place. (Johannsen does not go into that)
Furthermore, Johannse admits a few sentences later, those in LIncoln's party who were for the "repeal" of the Compromise, on page 23, were actually trying to get the language of Kansas Act to bluntly say that would repeal the Compromise -- as a way to defeat the Kansas Act on page 24. Yet he used that, regardless, to belittle Lincoln's reaction to Kansas Act. A strange kind of paragraph, that.
You learn a lot -- but you learn from a scholar who was defending Douglas, and accepted Douglas own speeches as valid, factually on as a narrative. A more thorough look at the facts, show Douglas was duplicitous, and that duplicity caused a calamity. Something Johannsen seems to blame on Lincoln.
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