Visits with Lincoln : abolitionists meet the president at the White House / Barbara A. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Barbara A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century.

Abolitionists.

African American abolitionists--History--19th century.

African American abolitionists.

Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.

Enslaved persons.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Views on slavery.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Relations with African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, to visit President Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War. It paints a portrait of Lincoln through the eyes of the visitors, who include a variety of important historical figures-Jessie Fremont, Carl Schurz, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, Anna Dickinson, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Sojourner Truth. Through their accounts, White traces changes in Lincoln's ideas and attitudes over the course of

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32875-9

1-283-21354-0

9786613213549

0-7391-6418-X

OCLC:

754326449