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| Title: | Forced into Glory
: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream |
| Author: | Lerone Bennett, Jr |
| ISBN: | 0874850029 : 9780874850024 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 662 |
| Weight: | .916 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Johnson Publishing Co.) - October 2007 |
| List Price: | 19.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | American history: c1800 to c1900: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT: Black studies: History of specific groups eg ethnic,gender,social: USA |
Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness surveys the president's policies, speeches, and private utterances and concludes that he had little real interest in abolition. Pointing to Lincoln's support for the fugitive slave laws, his friendship with slave-owning senator Henry Clay, and conversations in which he entertained the idea of deporting slaves in order to create an all-white nation, the book, concludes that the president was a racist at heart -- and that the tragedies of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era were the legacy of his shallow moral vision.
"The most systematic, best-researched, and compelling critique of Lincoln's [beliefs about race] that I know of." -- Journal of Blacks in Higher Education"
