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"What shall we do with the Negro?" : Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America /

Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents, publications of citizens' organizations, letters, diaries, and other sources, Paul D. Escott examines the attitudes and actions of Northerners and Southerners regarding the future of Afric...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Escott, Paul D., 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Subjects:
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: First declarations
  • Part 1: Northern developments. The North confronts the question ; War's proving ground ; Amnesty, apprenticeship, and the freedmen's future ; Politics, emancipation, and Black rights
  • Part 2: Southern developments. Slavery, war, and the slaveholder's mind ; Heresy, dogma, and the Confederate debate
  • Part 3: Confluence. The Hampton Roads conference ; 1865 and beyond
  • Appendix: A brief, additional note on a vast historiography.