| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 157 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Timeline of the Civil War -- Jessie benton Frémont, September 1861 -- Carl Schurz, spring and fall 1862 -- Beecher family, December 1862 and February 1865 -- Frederick Douglass, August 1863 and August 1864 -- Anna Dickinson, January and spring 1864 -- William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, March 1862, January 1863, and June 1864 -- Sojourner Truth, October 1864 -- Conclusion : Lincoln and his visitors |
| Summary |
Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, who visited President Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War in an attempt to advance their goal of ending slavery immediately. The book paints a portrait of Lincoln through the eyes of his visitors and traces changes in his ideas and attitudes over the course of the war. The visitors include Jessie Benton Fremont, wife of Major General John Charles Fremont, the famous explorer and commander of the Union army's Department of the West; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isabella .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Relations with African Americans
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| SUBJECT |
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 fast |
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Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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African American abolitionists -- History -- 19th century
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Abolitionists
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African American abolitionists
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Antislavery movements
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Relations with African Americans
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780739164181 |
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073916418X |
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