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Jonathan W. White

House Built by Slaves

African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,9 cm / 15,2 cm / 1,7 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 288 Seiten
EAN 9781538190128
Veröffentlicht März 2024
Verlag/Hersteller Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Rediscover the forgotten story of how President Lincoln welcomed African Americans to his White House during America’s most divided and war-torn era.Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln’s welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States, using the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in America's most divisive era.

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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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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