Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

Black American’s attitudes toward the Great Emancipator is focus of Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln (University Illinois Press), edited Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman. The essays show that Americans’ “plumb deeper than his reputation as Emancipator,” writes Morel. Indeed, Americans; from presidency to recent past evince a “’persistent ambivalence,’” write Norman in their introduction. Morel believes “the value book about American opinions resides not only neglected history it tells, but also possibility can rejuvenate discussion what an excluded people saw worth saving nation he thought worthy saving.”