House Built by Slaves

House Built by Slaves

African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House

White, Jonathan W.

Rowman & Littlefield

03/2024

288

Mole

Inglês

9781538190128

15 a 20 dias

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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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Abraham Lincoln;American History;Civil War;Slavery;White House