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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876

The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876

Green, William D.

Hardcover

Black American HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)Regional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 1517905281
ISBN13: 9781517905286
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Oct 23 2018
Pages: 496
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four Minnesotans


White people, Frederick Douglass said in a speech in 1876, were the children of Lincoln, while black people were at best his stepchildren. Emancipation became the law of the land, and white champions of African Americans in the state were suddenly turning to other causes, regardless of the worsening circumstances of black Minnesotans. Through four of these children of Lincoln in Minnesota, William D. Green's book brings to light a little known but critical chapter in the state's history as it intersects with the broader account of race in America.

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