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Historians working in the classical liberal tradition believe that
individual decision-making and individual rights matter in the
making of history. History written in the classical liberal
tradition emerged largely in the nineteenth century, when the field
of history was first professionalized in Europe and the Americas.
Professional historical research was then imbued with liberal
values, which included rigorous attention to the sources,
historicist suspicion of an ultimate mover, an honest and
dispassionate rational outlook, and humility towards what could be
known. Above all, liberals wanted to chart the history of liberty,
warn against threats to liberty, and defend it in an evolving
political world. They believed history was real, and that it had
lessons to teach, but that these lessons could not provide
sufficient knowledge to predict the future or reorganize society
around a central plan. This book demonstrates how the classical
liberal tradition in historical writing persists to this day, but
how it is often neglected and due for renewal. The book contrasts
the classical liberal view on history with conservative,
progressive, Marxist, and post-modern views. Each of the eleven
chapters address a different historical topic, from the development
of classical liberalism in nineteenth century America to the the
history of civil liberties and civil rights that stemmed from this
tradition. Authors give particular attention to the importance of
social and economic analysis. Each contributor was chosen as an
expert in their field to provide a historiographical overview of
their subject, and to explain what the classical liberal
contribution to this historiography has been and should be. Authors
then provide guidance towards possible tools of analysis and
related research topics that future historians working in the
classical liberal tradition could take up. The authors wish to call
upon other historians to recognize the important contributions to
historical understanding that have come and can be provided by the
insights of classical liberalism.
Historians working in the classical liberal tradition believe that
individual decision-making and individual rights matter in the
making of history. History written in the classical liberal
tradition emerged largely in the nineteenth century, when the field
of history was first professionalized in Europe and the Americas.
Professional historical research was then imbued with liberal
values, which included rigorous attention to the sources,
historicist suspicion of an ultimate mover, an honest and
dispassionate rational outlook, and humility towards what could be
known. Above all, liberals wanted to chart the history of liberty,
warn against threats to liberty, and defend it in an evolving
political world. They believed history was real, and that it had
lessons to teach, but that these lessons could not provide
sufficient knowledge to predict the future or reorganize society
around a central plan. This book demonstrates how the classical
liberal tradition in historical writing persists to this day, but
how it is often neglected and due for renewal. The book contrasts
the classical liberal view on history with conservative,
progressive, Marxist, and post-modern views. Each of the eleven
chapters address a different historical topic, from the development
of classical liberalism in nineteenth century America to the the
history of civil liberties and civil rights that stemmed from this
tradition. Authors give particular attention to the importance of
social and economic analysis. Each contributor was chosen as an
expert in their field to provide a historiographical overview of
their subject, and to explain what the classical liberal
contribution to this historiography has been and should be. Authors
then provide guidance towards possible tools of analysis and
related research topics that future historians working in the
classical liberal tradition could take up. The authors wish to call
upon other historians to recognize the important contributions to
historical understanding that have come and can be provided by the
insights of classical liberalism.
History has long acknowledged that President Abraham Lincoln, the
Great Emancipator, had considered other approaches to rectifying
the problem of slavery during his administration. Prior to
Emancipation, Lincoln was a proponent of colonization: the idea of
sending African American slaves to another land to live as free
people. Lincoln supported resettlement schemes in Panama and Haiti
early in his presidency and openly advocated the idea through the
fall of 1862. But the bigoted, flawed concept of colonization never
became a permanent fixture of U.S. policy, and by the time Lincoln
had signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, the
word "colonization" had disappeared from his public lexicon. As
such, history remembers Lincoln as having abandoned his support of
colonization when he signed the proclamation. Documents exist,
however, that tell another story. Colonization after Emancipation:
Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement explores the
previously unknown truth about Lincoln's attitude toward
colonization. Scholars Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page
combed through extensive archival materials, finding evidence,
particularly within British Colonial and Foreign Office documents,
which exposes what history has neglected to reveal-that Lincoln
continued to pursue colonization for close to a year after
emancipation. Their research even shows that Lincoln may have been
attempting to revive this policy at the time of his assassination.
Using long-forgotten records scattered across three continents-many
of them untouched since the Civil War-the authors show that Lincoln
continued his search for a freedmen's colony much longer than
previously thought. Colonization after Emancipation reveals
Lincoln's highly secretive negotiations with the British government
to find suitable lands for colonization in the West Indies and
depicts how the U.S. government worked with British agents and
leaders in the free black community to recruit emigrants for the
proposed colonies. The book shows that the scheme was never very
popular within Lincoln's administration and even became a subject
of subversion when the president's subordinates began battling for
control over a lucrative "colonization fund" established by
Congress. Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored
chapter of the emancipation story. A valuable contribution to
Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts
about an ill-fated project and illuminates just how complex, and
even convoluted, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about the end of slavery
really were.
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