Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War

Michael P. Johnson (Ph.D., Stanford University) is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively, taught, and lectured on the social and political history of slavery and freedom in the Civil War era. His publications include Toward a Patriarchal Republic: The Secession of Georgia (1977); No Chariot Let Down: show more Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (1984); and, with James Roark, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984). He is coauthor of The American Promise: A History of the United States (Bedford/St. Martin's) and editor of Reading the American Past: Selected Historical Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's). show less