Consider These Questions

Has your opinion changed about Lincoln's role in the emancipation of African Americans? If so, how?

Has your opinion changed about the role of the enslaved in the push for emancipation? If so, how?

"...our understanding history across the board over the last 20 or 30 years [is an] attempt to search for evidence to recover the histories of the so-called inarticulate, who turn out not to be all that inarticulate after all."
— Louis Masur