A house built by slaves : African American visitors to the Lincoln White House / Jonathan W. White.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]Description: xxii, 251 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781538161807
- 153816180X
- African American visitors to the Lincoln White House
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Relations with African Americans
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery
- White House (Washington, D.C.) -- History -- 19th century
- Hospitality -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects
- African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Readers of American history and books on Abraham Lincoln will appreciate what Los Angeles Review of Books deems an "accessible book" that "puts a human face -- many human faces -- on the story of Lincoln's attitudes toward and engagement with African Americans" and Publishers Weekly calls "a rich and comprehensive account."
Widely praised and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, this book illuminates why Lincoln's unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. From his 1862 meetings with Black Christian ministers, Lincoln began inviting African Americans of every background into his home, from ex-slaves from the Deep South to champions of abolitionism such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. More than a good-will gesture, the president conferred with his guests about the essential issues of citizenship and voting rights. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how African Americans used the White House as a national stage to amplify their calls for equality. Even more than 160 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's inclusion of African Americans remains a necessary example in a country still struggling from racial divisions today.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.