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Lincoln and Reconstruction (Paperback)
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Lincoln and Reconstruction (Paperback)
Series: Concise Lincoln Library
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Although Abraham Lincoln dominates the literature on the American
Civil War, he remains less commonly associated with reconstruction.
Previous scholarly works touch on Lincoln and reconstruction, but
they tend either to speculate on what Lincoln might have done after
the war had he not been assassinated or to approach his
reconstruction plans merely as a means of winning the war. In this
thought-provoking study, John C. Rodrigue offers a succinct but
significant survey of Lincoln's wartime reconstruction initiatives
while providing a fresh interpretation of the president's plans for
postwar America. Revealing that Lincoln concerned himself with
reconstruction from the earliest days of his presidency, Rodrigue
details how Lincoln's initiatives unfolded, especially in the
southern states where they were attempted. He explores Lincoln's
approach to various issues relevant to reconstruction, including
slavery, race, citizenship, and democracy; his dealings with
Congressional Republicans, especially the Radicals; his support for
and eventual abandonment of colonization; his dealings with the
border states; his handling of the calls for negotiations with the
Confederacy as a way of reconstructing the Union; and his move
toward emancipation and its implications for his approach to
reconstruction. As the Civil War progressed, Rodrigue shows,
Lincoln's definition of reconstruction transformed from the mere
restoration of the seceded states to a more fundamental social,
economic, and political reordering of southern society and of the
Union itself. Based on Lincoln's own words and writings as well as
an extensive array of secondary literature, Rodrigue traces the
evolution of Lincoln's thinking on reconstruction, providing new
insight into a downplayed aspect of his presidency.
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