Oates, Stephen B

A complete biography of the civil rights leader, his private and public life, and the times in which he lived.

The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.

A complete biography of the civil rights leader, his private and public life, and the times in which he lived.

An award-winning historian tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices of 13 principal players of the drama.

Describes the historical and mythical Lincoln.

Tells the story of the approach of the Civil War from the viewpoints of thirteen historical figures, drawing from the letters, speeches, interviews, and memoirs of each featured speaker to form the dramatic monologues as they might have been delivered by Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Nat Turner, Mary Chesnut, and others.