API Update RE: The New The Plantation Mentality/Syndrome Historic Opinions on The Emancipation Proclamation Reconstruction era of the United States and Jim Crow laws African Americans quickly set up congregations for themselves, as well as schools, community and civic associations, to have space away from white control or oversight. While the post-war reconstruction era was initially a time of progress for African Americans, in the late 1890s, Southern states enacted Jim Crow laws to enforce racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Most African Americans followed the Jim Crow laws, using a mask of compliance to prevent becoming victims of racially motivated violence. To maintain self-esteem and dignity, African Americans continued to build their own schools, churches, banks, social clubs, and other businesses. SUMMARY: Some 20th century black intellectuals, including W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin and Julius Lester, described the proclamation as essentially worthless. Perhaps the strongest attack was Lerone Bennetts Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincolns White Dream (2000), which claimed that Lincoln was a white supremacist who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in lieu of the real racial reforms for which radical abolitionists pushed. In his Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation, Allen C. Guelzo noted; the professional historians lack of substantial respect for the document, since it has been the subject of few major scholarly studies. He argued that Lincoln was Americas last Enlightenment politician and as such was dedicated to removing slavery strictly within the bounds of law. Other historians have given more credit to Lincoln for what he accomplished within the tensions of his cabinet and a society at war, for his own growth in political and moral stature, and for the promise he held out to the slaves. More might have been accomplished if he had not been assassinated. As Eric Foner wrote: Lincoln was not an abolitionist or Radical Republican, a point Bennett reiterates innumerable times. He did not favor immediate abolition before the war, and held racist views typical of his time. But he was also a man of deep convictions when it came to slavery, and during the Civil War Lincoln displayed a remarkable capacity for moral and political growth. Google/Bing/ Excite me @ Juan Raphael The Road Not Taken & please learn about The Juan Raphael Center For The Social Sciences, The Black Youth Organization & support my 27 city book tour in 2014...#API
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 17:50:41 +0000
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