TY - BOOK AU - White,Jonathan W. TI - A house built by slaves: African American visitors to the Lincoln White House SN - 9781538161807 PY - 2022///] CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. KW - Lincoln, Abraham, KW - White House (Washington, D.C.) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Hospitality KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - African Americans KW - Colonization KW - Africa KW - Social conditions KW - United States KW - Race relations KW - Political aspects KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era"-- ER -