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Four Books About How African Americans Have Understood Lincoln and His Legacy

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In this brief video I discuss four recent books that complicate our understanding of the relationship between Lincoln and the Black community during the Civil War and how African Americans have grappled with Lincoln’s legacy over time.

Books Referenced

Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman, Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln (University of Illinois Press, 2023).

John E. Washington, They Knew Lincoln (1943; reprint from Oxford University Press, 2018).

Jonathan White, To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln (University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

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Jonathan White, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).

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