"what Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America by Paul D. Escott

"what Shall We Do with the Negro?": Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America

Paul D. Escott

304 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Throughout the Civil War, newspaper headlines and stories repeatedly asked some variation of the question posed by the New York Times in 1862, "What shall we do with the negro?" The future status of African Americans was a pressing issue for those...

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