LaWanda Cox
Foreword by
James M. McPherson

Reveals the political savvy and egalitarian convictions behind Lincoln's racial policies.

6 x 9, 254 pages
paper, ISBN 0-87249-997-9, $12.95t

ABOUT THE BOOK

In Lincoln and Black Freedom, LaWanda Cox takes issue with historians who have pictured Lincoln as a white supremacist moved by political expediency to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. She argues that Lincoln was a consistent friend of African-American freedom, and she speculates on how Reconstruction would have differed had Lincoln lived through his second term.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

La Wanda Cox is professor emerita of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

REVIEWS

"No one who studies or admires Lincoln can afford to be without this landmark volume."—Governor Mario Cuomo

"The best treatment I have read of how [emancipation an Union victory] became inexorably linked and how they triumphed under Lincoln's 'art of the possible' leadership."—James M. McPherson, from the Foreword