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This is a most imaginative and useful contribution to the study of the causes and consequences of the Civil War and to the debates on slavery, emancipation, and free labor. Counterposing the writings, speeches, and correspondence of two influential contemporaries * Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx * Kulikoff masterfully imagines how Marx and Lincoln viewed each other's decisions, proposals, policies, and perspectives with regard to capitalism and slavery. The book is a splendid and valuable exploration of critical issues that dominated the antebellum period and informed debates across borders, time and space. * Louis Ferleger, coauthor of Cultivating Success in the South: Farm Households in the Postbellum Era * To Karl Marx's communists, Abraham Lincoln was the heroic 'single-minded son of the working class' who led his nation's struggle against slavery. Lincoln likened that struggle to the cause of the great European revolutions. Seeing the convergences as well as the clashes of these fundamentally different men, Allan Kulikoff illuminates two great minds making sense of the injustice and inequality of their time. * Sean Wilentz, Princeton University * Allan Kulikoff has done something ingenious. He has brought together in dialogue the president who presided over the capitalist revolution against slavery and the communist who called for capitalism's destruction. The result is clever, fascinating, and, because it's Kulikoff, insightful. * James Oakes, author of The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Ominous of the Civil War *

Allan Kulikoff has done something ingenious. He has brought together in dialogue the president who presided over the capitalist revolution against slavery and the communist who called for capitalism's destruction. The result is clever, fascinating, and, because it's Kulikoff, insightful. --James Oakes, author of The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Ominous of the Civil War To Karl Marx's communists, Abraham Lincoln was the heroic 'single-minded son of the working class' who led his nation's struggle against slavery. Lincoln likened that struggle to the cause of the great European revolutions. Seeing the convergences as well as the clashes of these fundamentally different men, Allan Kulikoff illuminates two great minds making sense of the injustice and inequality of their time. --Sean Wilentz, Princeton University Kulikoff masterfully imagines how Marx and Lincoln viewed each other's decisions, proposals, policies, and perspectives with regard to capitalism and slavery. The book is a splendid and valuable exploration of critical issues that dominated the antebellum period and informed debates across borders, time and space. --Louis Ferleger, coauthor of Cultivating Success in the South: Farm Households in the Postbellum Era This is a most imaginative and useful contribution to the study of the causes and consequences of the Civil War and to the debates on slavery, emancipation, and free labor. Counterposing the writings, speeches, and correspondence of two influential contemporaries--Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx--Kulikoff has provided important new insights into the economic, political, and ideological discussions of the Civil War era. --Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester

This is a most imaginative and useful contribution to the study of the causes and consequences of the Civil War and to the debates on slavery, emancipation, and free labor. Counterposing the writings, speeches, and correspondence of two influential contemporaries * Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx * Kulikoff masterfully imagines how Marx and Lincoln viewed each other's decisions, proposals, policies, and perspectives with regard to capitalism and slavery. The book is a splendid and valuable exploration of critical issues that dominated the antebellum period and informed debates across borders, time and space. * Louis Ferleger, coauthor of Cultivating Success in the South: Farm Households in the Postbellum Era * To Karl Marx's communists, Abraham Lincoln was the heroic 'single-minded son of the working class' who led his nation's struggle against slavery. Lincoln likened that struggle to the cause of the great European revolutions. Seeing the convergences as well as the clashes of these fundamentally different men, Allan Kulikoff illuminates two great minds making sense of the injustice and inequality of their time. * Sean Wilentz, Princeton University * Allan Kulikoff has done something ingenious. He has brought together in dialogue the president who presided over the capitalist revolution against slavery and the communist who called for capitalism's destruction. The result is clever, fascinating, and, because it's Kulikoff, insightful. * James Oakes, author of The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Ominous of the Civil War * A highly teachable text that prompts readers to think about the U.S. Civil War as an international event and serves as a primer on free labor and Marxist thought. Kulikoff 's introductory essay and his selections are superb; they concisely illuminate the similarities and the differences between free-labor ideology and Marx's theories. * Matthew C. White, Journal of the Early Republic *

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Allan Kulikoff is the Abraham Baldwin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at the University of Georgia. He is the author of several books, including The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism.

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