Lincoln and Black Freedom

By Lawanda Cox,

Book cover of Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership

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1 author picked Lincoln and Black Freedom as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This 1981 book influenced my decision to become a Lincoln scholar, for the author – a gifted historian of the Reconstruction era – effectively challenged the regnant notion that Lincoln was a “reluctant emancipator.”

So in my first book I devoted a chapter to the origins of Lincoln’s hatred of slavery, building on the foundation that Lawanda Cox had laid.

Examining closely the president’s dealings with racial politics in Louisiana, she traced his maneuvers behind the scenes in support of emancipation and Black suffrage and concluded that Lincoln was “a determined, though circumspect, emancipator and friend of black civil and…

From Michael's list on Lincoln as an anti-racist.

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