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James Oakes

James Oakes
James Oakes is a Civil War historian and a two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize for his works on the politics of abolition. He teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.


On Abraham Lincoln’s Convoluted Plan For the Abolition of Slavery

James Oakes Charts the Politics Leading Up the American Civil War
January 13, 2021  By James Oakes
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