The Black Man's President

The Black Man's PresidentFrederick 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. Author: Michael Burlingame. Hardcover; 320 pages. #21109407

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Included are historical photographs drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress and brief biographies of forty-eight great African Americans

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