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A House Built by Slaves Jonathan W. White

A House Built by Slaves By Jonathan W. White

A House Built by Slaves by Jonathan W. White


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A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White

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.

About Jonathan W. White

Jonathan W. White is associate professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author of ten books and over 100 articles, essays, and reviews on Lincoln and the Civil War. His writing has appeared in Smithsonian, Time, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He lives in Newport News, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Preface. There Was No Color Line There

Chapter 1. A Continual Torment To Me

Interlude. The Office

Chapter 2. The Political Wonders of the Year

Chapter 3. A Spectacle, as Humiliating as it was Extraordinary

Chapter 4. The Lord Has Work For Me Here

Interlude. Foreign Diplomats

Chapter 5. The Promise Being Made, Must Be Kept

Chapter 6. I Felt Big There

Chapter 7. Without Molestation or Insult

Interlude. The Ballot

Chapter 8. To Keep the Jewel of Liberty within the Family of Freedom

Chapter 9. The Object is a Worthy One

Chapter 10. A Testimonial of Her Appreciation

Interlude. City Point

Chapter 11. Douglass, I Hate Slavery as Much as You Do

Chapter 12. In the Presence of a Friend

Chapter 13. All the People . . . Are Invited

Interlude. The House Chamber

Chapter 14. I've Come to Propose Something to You

Chapter 15. A Sacred Effort

Chapter 16. She is My Equal, and the Equal of All Others

Interlude. Richmond

Chapter 17. The Great Guiding Hand that Now Lay Paralyzed in Death

Epilogue. Emphatically the Black Man's President

Appendix. Unconfirmed Meetings

Selected Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

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CIN153816180XG
9781538161807
153816180X
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White
Used - Good
Hardback
Rowman & Littlefield
20220412
288
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