![]() His works contended that Lincoln was incessantly pushed by abolitionists and compelled by priorities of preserving the Union and defeating the Confederacy, including the president’s decision to write a statute that did not free enslaved Blacks in the slaveholding U.S. His other works include Confrontation: Black And White (1965), Black Power USA (1967), Wade In The Water: Great Moments In Black History (1979) and Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream (2000).įor decades, Bennett debunked the notion that President Lincoln was a racial visionary or altruistic leader in terms of emancipation. In 1964 with What Manner Of Man, Bennett wrote the first prominent biography of the Rev. Peniel Joseph, a professor of History and Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, adding that Bennett was “one of the true giants of Black history.” ![]() ![]() “His writings helped to popularize and mainstream the study of the African diaspora for generations of Black folk domestically and internationally,” said Dr. ![]()
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