威尼斯人娱乐场

To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln

威尼斯人娱乐场 Museum
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Author Jonathan W. White will discuss a compelling collection of more than 120 letters from African Americans to Lincoln, most of which have never before been published. They offer unflinching, intimate, and often heart-wrenching portraits of Black soldiers鈥� and civilians鈥� experiences in wartime. As readers continue to think critically about Lincoln鈥檚 image as the 鈥淕reat Emancipator,鈥� this book centers African Americans鈥� own voices to explore how they felt about the President and how they understood the possibilities and limits of the power vested in the federal government.