"Black Americans in Mourning chronicles the grief felt by African Americans after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The book features prominent men and women, such as Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delany, and Elizabeth Keckley, as well as the hard-to-find voices of lesser-known Black people. The collective mourning of Black Americans set the stage for Lincoln's glorification"--
"Black Americans in Mourning chronicles the grief felt by African Americans after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The book features prominent men and women, such as Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delany, and Elizabeth Keckley, as well as the hard-to-find voices of lesser-known Black people. The collective mourning of Black Americans set the stage for Lincoln's glorification"--
Leonne M. Hudson, associate professor emeritus at Kent State University, is the author of The Odyssey of a Southerner: The Life and Times of Gustavus Woodson Smith, the editor of Company “A” Corps of Engineers, U.S.A., 1846-1848, in the Mexican War, and the coeditor of Democracy and the American Civil War: Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century.
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Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Pandemonium on the Potomac River 2. Slow Ride to Springfield 3. The Emancipator and the Emancipated 4. Their Earthly Moses 5. Father, Friend, and Benefactor 6. Lincoln as a Symbol 7. Campaigning for Full Citizenship Rights 8. Johnson and Black Americans’ Winter of Discontent Conclusion Bibliography Index
Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Pandemonium on the Potomac River 2. Slow Ride to Springfield 3. The Emancipator and the Emancipated 4. Their Earthly Moses 5. Father, Friend, and Benefactor 6. Lincoln as a Symbol 7. Campaigning for Full Citizenship Rights 8. Johnson and Black Americans’ Winter of Discontent Conclusion Bibliography Index
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