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February 2, 2021 Elizabeth R Varon THE WASHINGTON POST – In his illuminating and accessible new book, James Oakes, an acclaimed historian of emancipation, offers us a “third Lincoln”: Neither the mythic Great Emancipator nor a flawed reluctant emancipator, but instead a committed proponent of antislavery constitutionalism. Lincoln, Oakes argues in The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution, consistently upheld the “federal consensus” on slavery: that Congress could not abolish slavery in any state but also could not interfere with a state’s choice to emancipate enslaved people. Within these constitutional boundaries, Lincoln pursued, before and during the Civil War, the goal of abolition by individual states. He intended that pressure from the federal government would move the Southern states to enact their own gradual emancipation policies, as individual Northern states had done after the American Revolution.

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