Burlingame Michael
Burlingame Michael - The Black Man's President Abraham Lincoln African Americans And The Pursuit Of Racial Equality - Hardcover
Burlingame Michael - The Black Man's President Abraham Lincoln African Americans And The Pursuit Of Racial Equality - Hardcover
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Description: 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 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 assassination Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president " the "first to show any respect for their rights as men. To justify that description Douglass pointed not just to Lincoln's official acts and utterances like the Emancipation Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address but also to the president's own personal experiences with Black people. Referring to one of his White House visits Douglass said: " In daring to invite a Negro to an audience at the White House Mr. Lincoln was saying to the country: I am President of the black people as well as the white and I mean to respect their rights and feelings as men and as citizens. But Lincoln's description as emphatically the black man's president rests on more than his relationship with Douglass or on his official words and deeds. Lincoln interacted with many other African Americans during his presidency His unfailing cordiality to them his willingness to meet with them in the White House to honor their requests to invite them to consult on public policy to treat them with respect whether they were kitchen servants or leaders of the Black community to invite them to attend receptions to sing and pray with them in their neighborhoods all those manifestations of an egalitarian spirit fully justified the tributes paid to him by Frederick Douglass and other African Americans like Sojourner Truth who said: " I never was treated by any one with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man Abraham Lincoln. Historian David S. Reynolds observed recently that only by examining Lincoln's personal interchange with Black people do we see the complete falsity of the charges of innate racism that some have leveled against him over the years.
Title: The Black Man's President Abraham Lincoln African Americans And The Pursuit Of Racial Equality
Author(s): Burlingame Michael
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Barcode: 9781643138138
Pages: 320 Pages, 16 Pages Of Color Photographs
Publication Date: 11/2/2021
Category: Political Leaders & Leadership
Description: 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 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 assassination Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president " the "first to show any respect for their rights as men. To justify that description Douglass pointed not just to Lincoln's official acts and utterances like the Emancipation Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address but also to the president's own personal experiences with Black people. Referring to one of his White House visits Douglass said: " In daring to invite a Negro to an audience at the White House Mr. Lincoln was saying to the country: I am President of the black people as well as the white and I mean to respect their rights and feelings as men and as citizens. But Lincoln's description as emphatically the black man's president rests on more than his relationship with Douglass or on his official words and deeds. Lincoln interacted with many other African Americans during his presidency His unfailing cordiality to them his willingness to meet with them in the White House to honor their requests to invite them to consult on public policy to treat them with respect whether they were kitchen servants or leaders of the Black community to invite them to attend receptions to sing and pray with them in their neighborhoods all those manifestations of an egalitarian spirit fully justified the tributes paid to him by Frederick Douglass and other African Americans like Sojourner Truth who said: " I never was treated by any one with more kindness and cordiality than were shown to me by that great and good man Abraham Lincoln. Historian David S. Reynolds observed recently that only by examining Lincoln's personal interchange with Black people do we see the complete falsity of the charges of innate racism that some have leveled against him over the years.
Title: The Black Man's President Abraham Lincoln African Americans And The Pursuit Of Racial Equality
Author(s): Burlingame Michael
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Barcode: 9781643138138
Pages: 320 Pages, 16 Pages Of Color Photographs
Publication Date: 11/2/2021
Category: Political Leaders & Leadership
