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Douglass and Lincoln : how a revolutionary black leader and a reluctant liberator struggled to end slavery and save the Union / Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kendrick, Paul, 1983-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
- Douglass, Frederick.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Views on slavery.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Relations with African Americans.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- African American abolitionists--Biography.
- African American abolitionists.
- Presidents--United States--Biography.
- Presidents.
- Relations with African Americans.
- United States.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1857-1861.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 306 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Walker & Company, 2008.
- Summary:
- Describes how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass set the groundwork in three historic meetings to abolish slavery in the United States, despite their differing perspectives on the war and the institution of slavery.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Mission 1
- To 1860
- 1 Black Republicans 13
- 2 A Self-Made Man 26
- 3 To the Brink 38
- 4 "I Used to be a Slave..." 56
- 1861
- 5 Mighty Currents 71
- 6 Remorseless Struggle 82
- 1862
- 7 Different American Destinies 97
- 8 On the Wire 114
- 1863
- 9 "Give Them a Chance" 127
- 10 First Meeting 147
- 11 "Clenched Teeth and Steady Eye" 161
- 1864
- 12 "An Abolition War" 175
- 13 Revolutionary Dialogue 185
- 14 Going Home 203
- 1865
- 15 Sacred Efforts 219
- 16 "It Made Us Kin" 232
- Epilogue: America's Stepchildren 237
- Appendix Aftermath-The Douglass Family 249.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-289) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802715230
- 9780802715234
- OCLC:
- 153578313
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