Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership

by LaWanda Cox

Book Overview

Reveals the political savvy and egalitarian convictions behind Lincoln's racial policies

In the midst of America's civil rights movement, historians questioned the widely-held belief that Abraham Lincoln was the "Great Emancipator." They pictured him as a white supremacist moved by political expediency to issue the Emacipation Proclamation. In Lincoln and Black Freedom LaWanda Cox, a leading Reconstruction historian, argues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872499979
• ISBN13: 9780872499973
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"