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- ISBN
- 9781517905286
- Book Title
- Children of Lincoln : White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Social Science, History
- Topic
- Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), African American
- Item Weight
- 31.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
1517905281
ISBN-13
9781517905286
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22038767867
Product Key Features
Book Title
Children of Lincoln : White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), African American
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
31.1 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-001571
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Green brings to light a little-known but critical chapter in Minnesota's history through four of these 'children of Lincoln' in Minnesota."-- Pioneer Press "Extensively researched and well written, Children of Lincoln is an excellent state study in the broader context of post-Civil War history."-- CHOICE "Green's work should become required reading for those interested in the contradictory positions taken by white Republicans who championed black suffrage and equal citizenship rights but eventually abandoned black citizens to navigate by themselves continuing racial hostility and inequalities in both the North and South."-- The Annals of Iowa, "Beautifully written and deeply researched, The Children of Lincoln provides intimate portraits of four white Republicans in Minnesota after the Civil War. Having established in his previous books that African Americans were more deeply rooted and influential in the state's history than previously recognized, William D. Green demonstrates here that Minnesotans also played key roles in debates over racial equality that resonated far beyond state boundaries. He helps us understand not only the nation's retreat from equality in the late nineteenth century but also the persistence of racial disparities in Minnesota and across the United States today."--William P. Jones, author of The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights "William D. Green has done an excellent job of reconstructing the individual lives and decisions made by four Lincoln Republicans who soon after 1865 washed their hands of postemancipation issues, one explicitly asserting, 'We have done our part.' He traces how these four (and by analogy most northern white Americans) disengaged from the struggle for equality and sent African Americans into a 'new era of darkness,' undermining the very freedoms that the Civil War promised."--Annette Atkins, author of Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out "Green brings to light a little-known but critical chapter in Minnesota's history through four of these 'children of Lincoln' in Minnesota."-- Pioneer Press "Extensively researched and well written, Children of Lincoln is an excellent state study in the broader context of post-Civil War history."-- CHOICE "Green's work should become required reading for those interested in the contradictory positions taken by white Republicans who championed black suffrage and equal citizenship rights but eventually abandoned black citizens to navigate by themselves continuing racial hostility and inequalities in both the North and South."-- The Annals of Iowa, "Beautifully written and deeply researched, The Children of Lincoln provides intimate portraits of four white Republicans in Minnesota after the Civil War. Having established in his previous books that African Americans were more deeply rooted and influential in the state's history than previously recognized, William D. Green demonstrates here that Minnesotans also played key roles in debates over racial equality that resonated far beyond state boundaries. He helps us understand not only the nation's retreat from equality in the late nineteenth century but also the persistence of racial disparities in Minnesota and across the United States today."--William P. Jones, author of The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights "William D. Green has done an excellent job of reconstructing the individual lives and decisions made by four Lincoln Republicans who soon after 1865 washed their hands of postemancipation issues, one explicitly asserting, 'We have done our part.' He traces how these four (and by analogy most northern white Americans) disengaged from the struggle for equality and sent African Americans into a 'new era of darkness,' undermining the very freedoms that the Civil War promised."--Annette Atkins, author of Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out
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Dewey Decimal
323.19607307760904
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: "We Have Done Our Part" Part I. The Unforgiving Radical: Morton S. Wilkinson, 1860-1863 1. The Candidate 2. In Defense of the Union 3. The Indian's Guardian 4. A Wild Panic Prevails 5. Lincoln's Decision 6. Pike Island Part II. An Officer and a Gentleman: Thomas Montgomery, 1863-1867 7. The First Lieutenant Takes Command 8. Lizzie and the Troubles 9. Freedom and Education 10. Masonic Ties 11. Going Home Part III. The Man on the Seal: Morton S. Wilkinson, 1865-1869 12. By Chicanery and Deception of a Few Politicians 13. Willey's Amendment 14. A Lesson in Leadership 15. "Good Night" Part IV. The Man in the Shadows: Daniel D. Merrill, 1864-1871 16. "Ole Shady" 17. Called to Serve 18. A Church Is Born and a Pastor Is Found 19. Under His Steady Hand 20. To Be in God's Favor 21. Of Other Baptist Interests Part V. The Buried Citizen: Sarah Burger Stearns, 1866-1875 22. Celebration, 1875 23. Standing Alone in Minnesota 24. The Lesson of Kansas 25. The Tibbetts Petition 26. Married Women's Rights and the "King of Manomin" 27. Veto! 28. Back to Work Part VI. The Changed Man: Morton S. Wilkinson, 1869-1876 29. A Curious Vote on the Butler Bill 30. Where the Liberals Went 31. "His Unclassifiable Head" 32. A Republican with Unchanged Views 33. The Force Law 34. Sine Die Epilogue: The Children of Lincoln Notes Index
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
E185.93.M55G74 2018
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