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(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Exclusive Online Reviews The sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation will no doubt prompt further reconsideration of the ways in which the interrelationships of race, slavery, emancipation and colonization were understood during the Civil War. Henry Louis Gates's long introduction offers a judicious appraisal that can assume a place in a distinguished lineage of sophisticated African American analyses of Lincoln. Whilst never backing away from criticism of Lincoln - the treatment of the President's use of humour and racial epithets is especially well handled in this respect - Gates's assessment is underwritten by an acceptance that, for Lincoln, "slavery", "race" and "colonization" "were quite often separate issues" (xx).