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Forced into glory : Abraham Lincoln's white dream
Was Abraham Lincoln the Great Emancipator of popular memory, or a white supremacist who was pushed into emancipation?
At a glance
- Author
- Lerone, Jr., 1928-2018 Bennett
Why read it
- You will weigh the claim that Lincoln favored buying and deporting enslaved people rather than treating them as equal citizens
- You will test Lincoln's record issue by issue, on emancipation, confiscation, suffrage and Black soldiers, instead of judging him by one proclamation
- You will see that choosing how to remember Lincoln is a choice about the politics of freedom and white supremacy today
Who it is for
- A history reader doubting the popular story of Lincoln
- A teacher preparing lessons on emancipation and its limits
- A reader of American history asking who really ended slavery
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