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Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction

Collected Writings of LaWanda Cox

By: LaWanda C. Fenlason Cox

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Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction

Collected Writings of LaWanda Cox

By: LaWanda C. Fenlason Cox

LaWanda Cox is widely regarded as one of the most influential historians of Reconstruction and nineteenth-century race relations. Imaginative in conception, forcefully argued, and elegantly written, her work helped reshape historians' understanding of the age of emancipation. Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction brings together Cox's most important writings spanning more than forty years, including previously published essays, excerpts from her books, and an unpublished essay. Now retired from Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Cox gave Donald G. Nieman her full cooperation on this project. The result is a cohesive book of refreshing and sophisticated analysis that illuminates a pivotal era in American history. It not only serves as a lasting testament to a highly original scholar but also makes available to readers a remarkable body of scholarship that remains required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the age of emancipation and the historian's craft.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820319015

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9780820319018

Lincoln and Black Freedom

A Study in Presidential Leadership

By: LaWanda Cox

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Lincoln and Black Freedom

A Study in Presidential Leadership

By: LaWanda Cox

Reveals the political savvy and egalitarian convictions behind Lincoln's racial policies In the midst of America's civil rights movement, historians questioned the widely-held belief that Abraham Lincoln was the "Great Emancipator." They pictured him as a white supremacist moved by political expediency to issue the Emacipation Proclamation. In Lincoln and Black Freedom LaWanda Cox, a leading Reconstruction historian, argues that Lincoln was a consistent friend of African-American freedom but a friend whose oblique leadership style often obscured the strength of his commitment. Cox reveals Lincoln's cautious rhetoric and policies as deliberate strategy to achieve his joint goals of union and emancipation, and she demonstrates that his wartime reconstruction efforts in Louisana moved beyond a limited concept of freedom for the former slaves. Cox's final chapter explores the "limits of the possible," concluding that had Lincoln lived through his second term, the conflict between his successor and Congress could have been avoided and the postwar Reconstruction might have resulted in a more lasting measure of justice and equality for African Americans. Lincoln emerges from Cox's study as a masterful politician whose sure grasp of the nature of presidential leadership speaks not only to the difficulties of his age but also to the challenges of our own time.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643362437

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Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction

Collected Writings of LaWanda Cox

By: LaWanda C. Fenlason Cox

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Collected Writings of LaWanda Cox

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Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction

Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction

Lincoln and Black Freedom

Lincoln and Black Freedom

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Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction

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