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Lincoln Brochure Revised #E68AB ---------------- 4”--------------- ---------------- 4”--------------- ----------- 3 15/16” ---------- ----------- 3 15/16” ---------- ------------------------------------- 9” “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation” is being displayed in 63 public, community college and university libraries throughout the United States. For a schedule of exhibition locations and display periods, please visit the following Web site: www.ala.org/publicprograms/lincoln. For further information, please contact The American Library Association, Public Programs Office, 50 East Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611, or call 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5045. ADDITIONAL READINGS Ira Berlin, et al., Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War, 1992. Lawanda C. Fenlason Cox, Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership, 1981. David Herbert Donald, Lincoln, 1995. Don E. Fehrenbacher, ed., Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 2 vols., 1989. Don E. Fehrenbacher, with Ward M. McAfee, The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government’s Relations to Slavery, 2001. James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, 1988. On the Web Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission: lavery, and the prejudice it http://www.lincoln200.gov Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress: fostered, remains the central http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/malhome.html tragedy of American history. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, online edition: How could it be that a nation http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln Sfounded on human equality was Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen also home to one of the harshest “Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation” has been labor systems the modern world has organized by The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, and the known? This exhibition looks for Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, in cooperation with the American Library Association Public Programs answers in the progress of Abraham Office. This exhibition has been made possible by major grants from the Lincoln towards a higher realization National Endowment for the Humanities, promoting excellence in the humanities, and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, created of America’s ideals. Lincoln hated by Congress and charged with planning the national celebration of Lincoln’s 200th birthday. slavery. Yet he did not support John Rhodehamel, Norris Foundation Curator of American Historical immediate emancipation. Lincoln Manuscripts, The Huntington Library, served as exhibition curator. became the great emancipator only IQ Magic of Santa Monica, California, provided exhibition design. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this when he and his nation were recast brochure do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment in the crucible of war. for the Humanities. BROCHURE LINCOLN EXHIBITION OUTSIDE 15 7/8 X 9” 4/C ----------- 3 15/16” ---------- ----------- 3 15/16” ---------- ---------------- 4”--------------- ---------------- 4”--------------- ------------------------------------- 9” THE HOUSE DIVIDING Conflict over the spread of slavery into the western territories was the wedge that finally split the Union. Opposition to slavery’s expansion was also the cause that carried an obscure Illinois politician named Abraham Lincoln to the White House. Lincoln and the new Republican Party did not call for an end to slavery. But they did insist that slavery be restricted to the South: It must not spread into the western territories. When Lincoln won the presidency on that platform in 1860, the slaveholding states began to leave the Union. WAR FOR THE UNION When the Civil War broke out in 1861, President Lincoln quickly declared that the North was fighting only to restore the Union, and not to free the slaves. Lincoln moved cautiously, struggling to hold together a fragile coalition. He feared that moving against slavery LEGACIES would push the border states of Maryland and Kentucky into the arms of the Confederacy. Lincoln also recognized that white racism When the Civil War ended millions of former slaves was powerful and widespread in the North. The president thought faced an uncertain future. Black rights were backed by YOUNG LINCOLN’S AMERICA that the Northern war effort could be fatally damaged if he appeared Northern bayonets during the period of Reconstruc- to be a champion of black freedom. tion. But Southern whites were implacably opposed to The American Revolution left a contradictory legacy of equality. The North was largely indifferent. When U.S. freedom and slavery. Most of the founding fathers thought soldiers left the South in 1877, the experiment of slavery was wrong, but could envision no way to end it. As Reconstruction was over. African Americans lost many the United States grew, slavery flourished. No longer did of the rights of citizenship guaranteed by the slaveholders lament slavery as a “necessary evil.” They Constitution, rights that were not regained until the began to celebrate it as a “positive good.” By the 1830s, civil rights crusade of the twentieth century. Our slavery was coming under attack by Northern abolitionists. national journey to equality still continues. But most white Americans regarded abolitionists as dangerous fanatics. Lincoln himself lived out the contradictions of the WAR FOR UNION AND FREEDOM slaveholding republic. He believed that equality was the great promise of America. Yet Lincoln was not an abolitionist. For more than a year, Lincoln left slavery alone. Abolitionists demanded emancipation From left: Five generations of slaves, photograph, Beaufort, S.C., 1862. (The Gilder Lehrman Collection); “THE UNION IS DISSOLVED!” He believed that an attack on slavery would split the Union and condemned the president as a weak leader. But Lincoln’s caution was grounded on hard Charleston Mercury Extra, December 20, 1860. (The Huntington and end the American experiment in self-government. political realities. As the war dragged on, however, Lincoln came around to the idea of eman- Library); “Freedom and Slavery and the Coveted Territories,” in The cipation: “We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.” He signed the Emancipation Border Ruffian Code in Kansas, 1856. (The Huntington Library); Private Proclamation. This momentous decree transformed the Civil War. After emancipation, the soldier from the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment, ambrotype North fought not just for the Union, but also to end the centuries-old evil of slavery. Enlisting photograph, 1863. (The Gilder Lehrman Collection); “The 15th black soldiers in the Northern army was one of the Proclamation’s most important provisions. Amendment. Celebrated May 19th 1870,” lithograph, 1870. (The Gilder Lehrman Collection) By war’s end, some 200,000 African-American soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union. BROCHURE LINCOLN EXHIBITION INSIDE 15 7/8 X 9” 4/C.
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