Over the last forty years, historians of the Civil War era have illuminated how enslaved blacks helped bring about the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and then, two years later, the abolition of slavery. Building on W.E.B. Du Bois’s iconoclastic Black Reconstruction in America, first published in 1935, these studies have described how hundreds of thousands […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/12/22/the-emancipators-vision-black-ghost-of-empire-kris-manjapra/