Lincoln's Lost Colony
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8884-8 (ISBN)
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Abraham Lincoln is widely renowned for his stance on the emancipation of enslaved people in a period when America was sorely divided over the subject. However, at the same time, there was a little-known event that took place--one that left a stain on Lincoln's legacy, and has apologists still trying to expunge it today. This work tells the quiet but bloody history of Bernard Kock, a New Orleans entrepreneur with an ill-fated attempt at establishing a cotton plantation on Ile a Vache, a deserted Haitian island, using formerly enslaved Americans. It also covers Lincoln's involvement and support of Kock's plan, as well as his pledge of $50 in government funding for each of the 453 colonists. With chapters on Lincoln's encouragement of black deportation, the establishment of the plantation, the futile attempts at damage control and more, this text reveals an untold part of Lincoln's history.
Boyce Thompson is the author of five non-fiction books and his work has appeared in Governing and The Washington Post. He was a Washington correspondent for Reed-Elsevier and directed the editorial council at Hanley-Wood Publishing. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Crystalizing the Deal
2. Navigating the Corridors of Political Power
3. Origins of an Entrepreneur
4. Lincoln Encourages Black Deportation
5. The Administration Weighs Dozens of Colonization Proposals
6. A Short Road Show for Eager Investors
7. Unsmooth Sailing Ahead
8. Smooth Landing with Grand Intentions
9. Things Go from Very Bad to Much Worse
10. Establishing a Working Plantation
11. A Volatile Situation in Haiti
12. More Hardball and a Change in Leadership
13. A Futile Attempt at Damage Control
14. The Decision to Bail
15. A New Scapegoat Emerges
16. Colonization Goes Underground
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 34 photos |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-8884-2 / 1476688842 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-8884-8 / 9781476688848 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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