Lincoln and the Negro

by Benjamin Arthur Quarles

Book Overview

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 Lincoln's childhood attitudes, Benjamin Quarles traces the development of Lincoln's thought in relation to the African American, a development which was to culminate in the Emancipation Proclamation. Concerned at first with methods of colonization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306804476
• ISBN13: 9780306804472
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"