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The Children of Lincoln - White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876 (Hardcover)
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The Children of Lincoln - White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876 (Hardcover)
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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. In a
narrative spanning the years of the Civil War and Reconstruction,
the lives of these four Minnesotans mark the era's most significant
moments in the state, the Midwest, and the nation for the
Republican Party, the Baptist church, women's suffrage, and Native
Americans. Morton Wilkinson, the state's first Republican senator;
Daniel Merrill, a St. Paul business leader who helped launch the
first Black Baptist church; Sarah Burger Stearns, founder and first
president of the Minnesota Woman Suffragist Association; and Thomas
Montgomery, an immigrant farmer who served in the Colored Regiments
in the Civil War: each played a part in securing the rights of
African Americans and each abandoned the fight as the forces of
hatred and prejudice increasingly threatened those hard-won rights.
Moving from early St. Paul and Fort Snelling to the Civil War and
beyond, The Children of Lincoln reveals a pattern of racial
paternalism, describing how even "enlightened" white Northerners,
fatigued with the "Negro Problem," would come to embrace policies
that reinforced a notion of black inferiority. Together, their
lives-so differently and deeply connected with nineteenth-century
race relations-create a telling portrait of Minnesota as a
microcosm of America during the tumultuous years of Reconstruction.
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