The president and the freedom fighter Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and their battle to save America's soul
"Upon his election as President of the troubled United States, Abraham Lincoln faced a dilemma. He knew it was time for slavery to go, but how fast could the country change without being torn apart? Many abolitionists wanted Lincoln to move quickly, overturning the founding documents along the way....
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[New York, New York] :
Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Preamble
- From the bottom up
- A fighting chance
- Self-made men
- On the road
- Where there is smoke
- A subterranean passway
- The divided house
- The election of 1860
- Mr. Lincoln's war
- War in the West
- To proclaim or not to proclaim
- Turning point at Gettysburg
- A Black visitor to the White House
- The mission of the war
- My friend Douglass
- April is the cruelest month
- Epilogue. A bone-handled cane.
