The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) Shaara citizens were usually unscathed if

citizens were usually unscathed if they were able to stay out of harm’s way

What are we to do when the letter of the law is at odds with what we believe justice requires

noted Civil War scholar Timothy B

influences

forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in America

The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) Shaara citizens were usually unscathed ifby Michael Burlingame Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president as well as the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country. This narrative history of Lincolns personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood. In a little noted eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's