Title: Forced into glory : Abraham Lincoln's white dream /
Authors: Bennett, Lerone, 1928-2018
Publisher: Johnson Pub. Co.,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, Relations with African Americans.; Lincoln, Abraham, Public opinion.; United States.; Slaves Emancipation United States; African Americans Legal status, laws, etc. History; African Americans Civil rights History; Public opinion United States History; United States Politics and government
Abstract: Presents evidence to support the author's contention that Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation did not free the slaves and that Lincoln actually had no intentions of promoting equality between the races, but was instead planning to deport native-born African-Americans.
Contents: Mirage -- The most famous act in U.S. history never happened -- The emancipation proclamation that wasn't -- Pharaoh and Moses -- Mirror -- A fantasy for all seasons -- Prologue in blackface and whiteface -- Myth -- Fooling all the people all the time -- The white dream -- The last best [white] hope -- In the red, white and black beginning -- The Jim Crow Lincoln -- Backing the black laws -- Toward the ethnic cleansing of America -- "White man's charter" -- How to emancipate without emancipating -- A politician divided against himself -- Ignoring America's greatest moral crisis -- Supporting the great American slave hunt -- Prelude to halfness -- "White man's war" -- "The negro has nothing to do with it" -- The Bull Run blues -- "Linconia": Lincoln's fantasy plan for banishing blacks -- The emancipators nobody knows -- The emancipating congress -- The "conversion" of Abraham Lincoln -- Lincoln asks blacks to leave America -- "Let this cup pass from me" -- Lincoln tries to escape history -- Lincoln asks congress to deport blacks -- No hidin' place -- "Whipped into ... Glory" -- Emancipating the emancipator -- Goin' to Gettysburg, sorry I can't take you -- With malice toward some -- Reconstruction of the white people, by the white people, for the white people -- The last Lincoln.