What Shall We Do with the Negro?: Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America

by Paul D. Escott

Book Overview

Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for those in both the North and in the South. Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents, publications of citizens? organizations, letters, diaries, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813927862
• ISBN13: 9780813927862
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher