"What shall we do with the Negro?" : Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America / Paul D. Escott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escott, Paul D., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.

Enslaved persons.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History--19th century.

Race--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Race.

Racism--United States--History--19th century.

Racism.

White people--United States--Attitudes--History--19th century.

White people.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Political and social views.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Relations with African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"What Shall We Do with the Negro?" serves as a corrective in offering a more realistic, more nuanced, and less celebratory approach to understanding this crucial period in American history.

Contents:

The North confronts the question

War's proving ground

Amnesty, apprenticeship, and the freedmen's future

Politics, emancipation, and Black rights

Slavery, war, and the slaveholder's mind

Heresy, dogma, and the Confederate debate

The Hampton Roads conference

1865 and beyond

Appendix: a brief, additional note on a vast historiography.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613585547

9781280490316

1280490314

9780813930466

0813930464

OCLC:

753977945