A rejected alternative: Union policy and the relocation of southern "contrabands" at the dawn of emancipation.

From: Journal of Southern History | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: Voegeli, V. Jacque | Copyright information

HISTORIANS CONTINUE TO DISAGREE ABOUT HOW DEEPLY THE NEGATIVE attitudes of northern whites toward blacks influenced politics during the Civil War. Increasingly scholars do agree that powerful prejudice against blacks prevailed among white northerners of foreign and southern birth and ancestry, especially in the Middle West, and some researchers go on to say that these feelings reinforced wartime support for black colonization abroad and delayed President Abraham Lincoln's embrace o...

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