Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 10: Were alternatives to civil war possible by 1860?
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“Lincoln allegedly teaches lessons about ‘the politics of the possible’,” writes Mark Graber, “but the precise nature of those lessons and possibilities are obscured by scholarly failures to acknowledge the proslavery compromises necessary in 1861 to preserve the Union peacefully or the justification of the violence actually responsible for the abolition of slavery.” (“John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, and the Problem of Constitutional Evil” in
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 10: Were alternatives to civil war possible by 1860?
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 10…
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 10: Were alternatives to civil war possible by 1860?
“Lincoln allegedly teaches lessons about ‘the politics of the possible’,” writes Mark Graber, “but the precise nature of those lessons and possibilities are obscured by scholarly failures to acknowledge the proslavery compromises necessary in 1861 to preserve the Union peacefully or the justification of the violence actually responsible for the abolition of slavery.” (“John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, and the Problem of Constitutional Evil” in