Lincoln on Race and Slavery / / ed. by Donald Yacovone, Henry Louis Gates.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Gates, Henry Louis,
• HerausgeberIn: Gates, Henry Louis,; Yacovone, Donald,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 35 halftones.

Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery, yet he also harbored grave doubts about the intellectual capacity of African Americans, publicly...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Abraham Lincoln on Race and Slavery
• 1. Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery
• 2. Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois
• 3. A L to Mary Speed
• 4. Temperance Address
• 5. A L to Williamson Durley
• 6. A L to Josephus Hewett
• 7. Speech at Worcester, Massachusetts
• 8. Remarks and Resolution Introduced in United States House of Representatives Concerning Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia
• 9. Eulogy on Henry Clay & Outline for Speech to the Colonization Society
• 10. Speech to the Springfield Scott Club
• 11. Fragments on Slavery
• 12. Speech at Bloomington, Illinois
• 13. Speech at Peoria, Illinois
• 14. A L to Ichabod Codding
• 15. A L to Owen Lovejoy
• 16. A L to George Robertson
• 17. A L to Joshua F. Speed
• 18. Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan
• 19. A L to Newton Deming and George P. Strong
• 20. Speech at Springfield, Illinois
• 21. A House Divided, Speech at Springfield, Illinois
• 22. A L to John L. Scripps
• 23. Fragment on the Struggle Against Slavery
• 24. Speech at Chicago, Illinois
• 25. Speech at Springfield, Illinois
• 26. Speech at Lewistown, Illinois
• 27. First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois
• 28. Second Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Freeport, Illinois
• 29. Speech at Carlinville, Illinois
• 30. Speech at Clinton, Illinois
• 31. Speech at Edwardsville, Illinois
• 32. Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas
• 33. Fragment on Pro-slavery Theology
• 34. Seventh and Last Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Alton, Illinois & AL to James N. Brown
• 35. A L to Salmon P. Chase
• 36. Speech at Columbus, Ohio
• 37. Speech at Cincinnati, Ohio
• 38. Fragment on Free Labor
• 39. Address at the Cooper Institute, New York City
• 40. Speech at Hartford, Connecticut
• 41. A L to John A. Gilmer
• 42. First Inaugural Address
• 43. A L to Orville H. Browning
• 44. Message to Congress
• 45. A L to James A. McDougall
• 46. A L to Horace Greeley & Message to Congress
• 47. Appeal to Border State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation
• 48. Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes
• 49. A L to Horace Greeley
• 50. Reply to Emancipation Memorial Presented by Chicago Christians of All Denominations
• 51. Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
• 52. Annual Message to Congress
• 53. Emancipation Proclamation
• 54. A L to Andrew Johnson
• 55. Resolution on Slavery
• 56. A L to John M. Schofield
• 57. Order of Retaliation
• 58. A L to Nathaniel P. Banks
• 59. A L to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
• 60. A L to James C. Conkling
• 61. Fragment
• 62. Annual Message to Congress
• 63. Reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association
• 64. A L to Albert G. Hodges
• 65. A L to Edwin M. Stanton
• 66. Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills
• 67. Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States
• 68. Second Inaugural Address
• 69. Speech to One Hundred Fortieth Indiana Regiment
• 70. Last Public Address
• Appendix: Lincoln, Race, and Humor
• Index