First published in 1962, Lincoln and the Negro was the first book to examine in detail how Lincoln faced the problem of the status of black people in American democracy, and it remains unsurpassed. Starting with Lincoln’s childhood attitudes, Benjamin Quarles traces the development of Lincoln’s thought in relation to the African American, a development which was to culminate in the Emancipation Proclamation. Concerned at first with methods of colonization outside the United States, Lincoln came later to advocate not only emancipation of the slaves, but also equal political rights for them. In addition, he was the first president to invite black Americans to the White House and to treat them as equals. Black attitudes towards Lincoln evolved almost as much Lincoln’s own attitude. When he was first elected, blacks expected very little from Lincoln. But he slowly gained their respect—by recognition of individual African Americans, by placing them in the Union Army, and ultimately by the Emancipation Proclamation. His assassination served to enshrine him as a hero for the newly freed slaves. Lincoln and the Negro, in examining both sides of the relationship, is a vitally important contribution to our understanding of Abraham Lincoln and of American democracy itself.
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Benjamin Quarles (1904–1996) was a noted author, editor, and historian and the first African American to be published in what later became the Journal of American History. Africana hails him as a key figure in the emergence of African-American history as an academic discipline.
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ONCE AGAIN it was Good Friday, April 14, the first Good Friday to fall on that date since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln eleven years earlier. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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White House, New York, United States, Abraham Lincoln, New Orleans, War Department, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, South Carolina, Cow Island, President Lincoln, Secretary of War, Executive Mansion, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, Fort Pillow, John Brown, Chief Magistrate, North Carolina, Capitol Hill, Henry Highland Garnet, Missouri Compromise, Chief Executive, First Lady, Mississippi Valley New!
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ONCE AGAIN it was Good Friday, April 14, the first Good Friday to fall on that date since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln eleven years earlier. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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White House, New York, United States, Abraham Lincoln, New Orleans, War Department, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, South Carolina, Cow Island, President Lincoln, Secretary of War, Executive Mansion, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, Fort Pillow, John Brown, Chief Magistrate, North Carolina, Capitol Hill, Henry Highland Garnet, Missouri Compromise, Chief Executive, First Lady, Mississippi Valley New!
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