Description:
Prior to Emancipation, President Abraham Lincoln was a proponent of colonization: the idea of sending African American slaves to another land to live as free people. This bookexplores the previously unknown truth about Lincoln's attitude toward colonization and exposes what history has neglected to reveal--that Lincoln continued to pursue colonization for close to a year after emancipation. The authors' research even shows that Lincoln may have been attempting to revive this policy at the time of his assassination.
Review Quotes:
"Provides a nuanced and fair account of Lincoln's struggle with race relations and colonization and adds to the ever-growing body of Lincoln scholarship."--The Journal of Southern History