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Lincoln And The Negro

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Lincoln And The Negro

Contributors:

By (Author) Benjamin Quarles

ISBN:

9780306804472

Publisher:

Hachette Books

Imprint:

Da Capo Press Inc

Publication Date:

22nd August 1991

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Other Subjects:

History of the Americas

Dewey:

973.7092

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Dimensions:

Width 140mm, Height 203mm

Description

First published in 1962, Lincoln and the Negro was the first book to examine in detail how Lincoln faced the problem of the status of black people in American democracy, and it remains unsurpassed. Starting with Lincolns childhood attitudes, Benjamin Quarles traces the development of Lincolns thought in relation to the African American, a development which was to culminate in the Emancipation Proclamation. Concerned at first with methods of colonization outside the United States, Lincoln came later to advocate not only emancipation of the slaves, but also equal political rights for them. In addition, he was the first president to invite black Americans to the White House and to treat them as equals. Black attitudes towards Lincoln evolved almost as much Lincolns own attitude. When he was first elected, blacks expected very little from Lincoln. But he slowly gained their respectby recognition of individual African Americans, by placing them in the Union Army, and ultimately by the Emancipation Proclamation. His assassination served to enshrine him as a hero for the newly freed slaves. Lincoln and the Negro, in examining both sides of the relationship, is a vitally important contribution to our understanding of Abraham Lincoln and of American democracy itself.

Author Bio

Benjamin Quarles (1904-1996) was a noted author, editor, and historian and the first African American to be published in what later became the Journal of American History. Africana hails him as a key figure in the emergence of African-American history as an academic discipline.

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