The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) Shaara Lincoln expressed an intellectually grounded

Lincoln expressed an intellectually grounded piety that placed his beloved Union under the judgment of both history and God

forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in America

noted Civil War scholar Timothy B

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citizens were usually unscathed if they were able to stay out of harm’s way

The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) Shaara Lincoln expressed an intellectually groundedby 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