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"""Leonne M. Hudson has accomplished a tour de force of research and analysis in the account of the response of Black Americans to Lincoln's assassination. He describes how many viewed the slain martyr as a Moses who led them from bondage to the promised land of freedom but was struck down at the end of the journey, and others likened him to Christ who was crucified on Good Friday 1865 to save them from the sin of slavery. A fine addition to Lincoln scholarship.""--James M. McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era ""Despite prior opinions and attitudes, African Americans unified in their collective grief for the assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Meticulously researched, this volume offers a compelling survey of how African Americans mourned Lincoln and harnessed his memory to advance a complex view of Lincoln's significance to the race and nation.""--Hilary N. Green, author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 and coauthor of The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 ""Hudson has scoured the personal letters, diaries, and journals of both well-known and obscure African Americans to document their universal grief after Lincoln's assassination. He shows there was also desperate concern for what the future would bring. Hudson brings much-needed research and insight to Lincoln literature.""--David J. Kent, author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America"

""Leonne M. Hudson has accomplished a tour de force of research and analysis in the account of the response of Black Americans to Lincoln's assassination. He describes how many viewed the slain martyr as a Moses who led them from bondage to the promised land of freedom but was struck down at the end of the journey, and others likened him to Christ who was crucified on Good Friday 1865 to save them from the sin of slavery. A fine addition to Lincoln scholarship.""--James M. McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era ""Despite prior opinions and attitudes, African Americans unified in their collective grief for the assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Meticulously researched, this volume offers a compelling survey of how African Americans mourned Lincoln and harnessed his memory to advance a complex view of Lincoln's significance to the race and nation.""--Hilary N. Green, author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 and coauthor of The Civil War and the Summer of 2020 ""Hudson has scoured the personal letters, diaries, and journals of both well-known and obscure African Americans to document their universal grief after Lincoln's assassination. He shows there was also desperate concern for what the future would bring. Hudson brings much-needed research and insight to Lincoln literature.""--David J. Kent, author of Lincoln: The Fire of Genius: How Abraham Lincoln's Commitment to Science and Technology Helped Modernize America

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Leonne M. Hudson, associate professor emeritus at Kent State University, is the author of The Odyssey of a Southerner: The Life and Times of Gustavus Woodson Smith, the editor of Company ""A"" Corps of Engineers, U.S.A., 1846-1848, in the Mexican War, and the coeditor of Democracy and the American Civil War: Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century.

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