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Abraham Lincoln grew up in a pioneer family that believed in freedom for all people, but Lincoln never witnessed slavery until he was 19, and he knew few free Blacks. As a politician he was concerned primarily with preserving the Union, not freeing the slaves. But a friendship with the Black leader Frederick Douglass and the bravery of the escaped slaves, and later of Black soldiers, brought to him a deeper understanding of the true humanity of these people of another race. Photos.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 Father Abraham Is Come!
CHAPTER 2 The Root of the Troubles
CHAPTER 3 A Criminal Betrayal
CHAPTER 4 A Universal Feeling
CHAPTER 5 In His Prison House
CHAPTER 6 So Sad a Face
CHAPTER 7 Right Makes Might
CHAPTER 8 The Mystic Chords of Memory
CHAPTER 9 A Time of Times
CHAPTER 10 The World Will Little Note
CHAPTER 11 Get Down, You Fool
CHAPTER 12 After Life's Fitful Fever
AFTERWORD
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY AND NOTES ON SOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Peter Burchard (1921–2004) was the author of over twenty fiction and nonfiction books for young readers and adults, including
One Gallant Rush: Robert Gould Shaw and His Brave Black Regiment, a major historical source for the motion picture
Glory, which won three Academy Awards. Two of his books were listed by the American Library Association as notable books.
The New York Times praised him highly, saying that "he uses historical fact with skill" and describing him as having "a splendid facility for characterization." He lived in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Zusammenfassung
Why did Abraham Lincoln approve of compromises over slavery?
How could he have thought that most black Americans would accept voluntary segregation as the way to freedom?
Why, in spite of Lincoln's shortcomings, did the black leader Frederick Douglass think that the president's accomplishments were more remarkable than those of the founding fathers?
In providing at least partial answers to these questions, Lincoln and Slavery gives us a fresh look at a subject often shadowed by misinformation.
Here, we follow the young Lincoln as he takes an interest in the law and becomes a legislator. In a series of debates with his political opponent Stephen Douglas, we hear Lincoln argue forcefully that slavery, if allowed to spread, would destroy democracy.
As Lincoln and Slavery focuses on Lincoln's years as president, we see him work on the Emancipation Proclamation -- which changed the purpose of the Civil War and welcomed black men into military service. We go with him to Gettysburg, where he reaffirms "the proposition that all men are created equal." We listen to him, only weeks before his death, as he proclaims that the Union armies will keep fighting "until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid for by another drawn with the sword."
This is the story of a great American, a man who hated slavery and believed, above all else, that democracy was the best hope for humankind -- in his time and in all the years to come.
