The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality by Michael Burlingame

The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality

Michael Burlingame

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president” as well as “the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country.” This narrative history of Lincoln’s personal interchange with Black people over...

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