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A House Built by Slaves - African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (Hardcover)
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A House Built by Slaves - African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (Hardcover)
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The forgotten but essential story of how President Lincoln welcomed
African Americans to his White House in our nation's most divided
and war-torn era. Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's
then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House
transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States.
From his 1862 meetings with Black Christian ministers, Lincoln
began inviting African Americans of every background to his home,
from ex-slaves from the Deep South to champions of abolitionism
such as Frederick Douglass. More than a good-will gesture, the
president would confer with his guests about the essential issues
of citizenship and voting rights. Drawing from an array of primary
sources, White reveals how Lincoln used the White House as the
stage to amplify African American voices. Even 155 years after the
signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's inclusion of
African Americans remains a necessary example in a country still
struggling from racial divisions today.
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