Author : Lerone Bennett
Release : 2007
Genre : African Americans
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 024/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Forced Into Glory by : Lerone Bennett
Download or read book Forced Into Glory written by Lerone Bennett. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness surveys the president's policies, speeches, and private utterances and concludes that he had little real interest in abolition. Pointing to Lincoln's support for the fugitive slave laws, his friendship with slave-owning senator Henry Clay, and conversations in which he entertained the idea of deporting slaves in order to create an all-white nation, the book, concludes that the president was a racist at heart--and that the tragedies of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era were the legacy of his shallow moral vision.