Lincoln and Black freedom : a study in presidential leadership
(2021)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : University of South Carolina Press, 2021
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781643362434 (electronic bk.) MWT15152983, 1643362437 (electronic bk.) 15152983
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
In Lincoln and Black Freedom, LaWanda Cox takes issue with historians who have pictured Lincoln as a white supremacist moved by political expediency to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. She argues that Lincoln was a consistent friend of African-American freedom, and she speculates on how Reconstruction would have differed had Lincoln lived through his second term
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