CHAPTER 9. ‘‘I Felt It to Be My Duty to Refuse’’: The President and the Slave Trader

Chapters in this book

1. Lincoln Revisited i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. CHAPTER 1. Lincoln’s Political Faith in the Peoria Address 1
6. CHAPTER 2. Lincoln’s Political Religion and Religious Politics 19
7. CHAPTER 3. Lincoln, Douglas, and Popular Sovereignty: The Mormon Dimension 45
8. CHAPTER 4. The Campaign of 1860: Cooper Union, Mathew Brady, and the Campaign of Words and Images 57
9. CHAPTER 5. ‘‘I See the President’’: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers’ Home 81
10. CHAPTER 6. Varieties of Religious Experience: Abraham and Mary Lincoln 105
11. CHAPTER 7. The Poet and the President: Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman 117
12. CHAPTER 8. 1862—A Year of Decision for President Lincoln and General Halleck 133
13. CHAPTER 9. ‘‘I Felt It to Be My Duty to Refuse’’: The President and the Slave Trader 147
14. CHAPTER 10. Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant 169
15. CHAPTER 11. Motivating Men: Lincoln, Grant, MacArthur, and Kennedy 181
16. CHAPTER 12. Lincoln and His Admirals 195
17. CHAPTER 13. After Emancipation: Abraham Lincoln’s Black Dream 215
18. CHAPTER 14. The Second Inaugural Address: The Spoken Words 231
19. CHAPTER 15. Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties: Then and Now 251
20. CHAPTER 16. After Lincoln’s Reelection: Foreign Complications 279
21. CHAPTER 17. Henry Adams on Lincoln 297
22. CHAPTER 18. Lincoln’s Assassination and John Wilkes Booth’s Confederate Connection 311
23. Notes 327
24. Contributors 365
25. The Lincoln Forum 370