East Side Freedom Library and Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to the next author event in their series

HISTORY REVEALED

Bill Green, Professor of History, Augsburg University

will present and discuss his new book

The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876

Thursday, September 5, 2019, 7pm

Framed around four white advocates of African American rights in Minnesota, The Children of Lincoln reveals a little known but critical chapter in the state’s history as it intersects with the broader account of race in America. It reveals a pattern of racial paternalism, describing how even “enlightened” white Northerners would come to embrace policies that reinforced a notion of black inferiority.

William D. Green is professor of history at Augsburg University and author of The Children of Lincoln: White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860-1876, which is a finalist for the Minnesota Non-Fiction category of the 2019 Minnesota Book Awards, to be awarded in April. He is also the author of Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865–1912 (winner of the Hognander Minnesota History Award) and A Peculiar Imbalance: The Rise and Fall of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837–1869, both published by University of Minnesota press.

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Also, keep the conversation going on Wednesday, September 18, 1 p.m. for the History Book Club at Roseville Library for a discussion of this work. Roseville Library is at 2180 Hamline Avenue North at County Road B in Roseville.