Lincoln on Race and Slavery (eBook)

Henry Louis Gates, Donald Yacovone (Herausgeber)

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2009
416 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3208-8 (ISBN)

Infos

From acclaimed scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the most comprehensive collection of Lincoln's writings on race and slaveryGenerations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery, yet he also harbored grave doubts about the intellectual capacity of African Americans, publicly used the n-word until at least 1862, and favored permanent racial segregation. In this book-the first complete collection of Lincoln's important writings on both race and slavery-readers can explore these contradictions through Lincoln's own words. Acclaimed Harvard scholar and documentary filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents the full range of Lincoln's views, gathered from his private letters, speeches, official documents, and even race jokes, arranged chronologically from the late 1830s to the 1860s.Complete with definitive texts, rich historical notes, and an original introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this book charts the progress of a war within Lincoln himself. We witness his struggles with conflicting aims and ideas-a hatred of slavery and a belief in the political equality of all men, but also anti-black prejudices and a determination to preserve the Union even at the cost of preserving slavery. We also watch the evolution of his racial views, especially in reaction to the heroic fighting of black Union troops.At turns inspiring and disturbing, Lincoln on Race and Slavery is indispensable for understanding what Lincoln's views meant for his generation-and what they mean for our own.

Autor

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Donald Yacovone has written and edited a number of books, including Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.1.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 35 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • act of congress • Adoption • African Americans • Amendment • American Colonization Society • americans • Anathema • Anecdote • Annexation • Apprenticeship • Battle of Fort Pillow • black people • black suffrage • Border states (American Civil War) • British subject • Career • Central Committee • charles sumner • Citizenship • Citizenship of the United States • Civil War • Colonization • compensated emancipation • Compromise of 1850 • Consideration • Constitution • Consummation • Democratic-Republican Party • despotism • direct election • Doris Kearns Goodwin • Dred Scott • Eloquence • Emancipation Proclamation • Emigration • Fort Wagner • franklin pierce • Free negro • Free Soil Party • Fugitive Slave Clause • fugitive slave laws • General Government • General order • George Fitzhugh • gideon welles • hanging • Humour • Institution • James A. McDougall • Jurisdiction • Know Nothing • laborer • law of war • Legislation • Legislature • Library of Congress • lynching • Michael Hahn • miscegenation • Missouri Compromise • mulatto • Murder • Nathaniel P. Banks • Natural and legal rights • Necessity • Oath of office • Owen Lovejoy • Peter Kunhardt • Politician • popular sovereignty • President of the United States • Prisoner of War • proclamation • Racial segregation • Racism • ratification • Regiment • repeal • Republicanism • Salmon P. Chase • Slave and free states • Slavery • Slavery in the United States • State constitution (United States) • State Government • Stephen A. Douglas • Suffrage • Summary execution • To Be a Slave • union army • United States Colored Troops • United States constitution • United States Senate • Voting • War Democrat • Whig Party (United States) • Whigs (British political party) • white people • Wilmot Proviso
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3208-X / 140083208X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3208-8 / 9781400832088