Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness surveys the president's policies, speeches, and private utterances and concludes that he had little real interest in abolition. Pointing to Lincol[...]
The prolific author of some of Black American's most readable books, has selected fifteen dramatic episodes in black history, which he feels have provided turning points in the shaping of the two Americas, the black and the white. According to Bennett, 'In history, as in art, there is a dialectical [...]