"What shall we do with the Negro?" [[electronic resource] ] : Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America / / Paul D. Escott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781647603321
• Autore: Escott Paul D. <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1-280-49031-4; 9786613585547; 0-8139-3046-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.7092
• Soggetti: Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States; African Americans - Civil rights - History - 19th century; African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History - 19th century; Race - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century; Racism - United States - History - 19th century; White people - United States - Attitudes - History - 19th century; United States Race relations History 19th century; United States Politics and government 1861-1865
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The North confronts the question -- War's proving ground -- Amnesty, apprenticeship, and the freedmen's future -- Politics, emancipation, and Black rights -- Slavery, war, and the slaveholder's mind -- Heresy, dogma, and the Confederate debate -- The Hampton Roads conference -- 1865 and beyond -- Appendix: a brief, additional note on a vast historiography.