The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) fido S/L# 35022

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which was advancing nearly blind north into Pennsylvania

as far as such a thing is now possible

but none he dreaded more than telling his two youngest sons

The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) fido S/L# 35022by Michael Burlingame 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 Lincolns personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood. In a little noted eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's