Paul Escott, author of ‘What Shall We Do with the Negro?’  Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America., about the new book and what ideas Civil War era people had about the role Blacks would play in American life after the end of slavery.

www.wfu.edu/wowf/2009/20091125.qa.escott.html

http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/escott.html