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James Oakes

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New York, New York, The United States

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American historian specializing in the history of American slavery; winner of the 2008 Lincoln Prize for his The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics; professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; born in 1953

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Average rating: 3.64 · 109 ratings · 29 reviews · 14 distinct works

	The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics 3.71 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders 3.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Of The People: A History Of The Unites States: Volume Ii: Since 1865 by James Oakes, Michael McGerr, Nick Cullather 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Of the People: A History of the United States by James Oakes, Michael McGerr, Nick Cullather 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Of the People: A Concise History of the United States, Volume I: To 1877 by Jeanne Boydston, Michael McGerr, Jan Ellen Lewis 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Oakes Diaries: Business, Politics, and the Family in Bury St Edmunds, 1778-1827 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Lincoln's America: 1809-1865 by Sara Vaughn Gabbard (Editor), Joseph R. Fornieri (Editor), Herman Belz (Contributor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Slavery and the American South by Winthrop D. Jordan (Editor), James Oakes 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:

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