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To Address You as My Friend : African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln /
"Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Am...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2021]
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a To Address You as My Friend : |b African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln / |c edited by Jonathan W. White ; foreword by Edna Greene Medford. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword / by Edna Greene Medford -- Prologue: One of Lincoln's Oldest Friends -- Chief Executive. Petitions for Pardon ; Correspondence Related to Colonization -- Commander in Chief. Letters Related to Military Recruitment and Volunteering ; Protests against Unequal Pay for Black Soldiers ; Requests for Discharge from the Service ; Letters from Soldiers in Trouble -- Chief Citizen. Requests for Equal Treatment ; Prayers for Aid for Christian Ministries ; Letters Seeking Economic Rights and Opportunities ; Mementos -- Epilogue. Massa Sam's Dead! | |
| 520 | |a "Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had confidence to write to the president and to seek redress of their grievances. Their letters express the dilemmas, doubts, and dreams of both recently enslaved and free people in the throes of dramatic change. For many, writing Lincoln was a last resort. Yet their letters were often full of determination, making explicit claims to the rights of U.S. citizenship in a wide range of circumstances. This compelling collection presents more than 120 letters from African Americans to Lincoln, most of which have never before been published. They offer unflinching, intimate, and often heart-wrenching portraits of Black soldiers' and civilians' experiences in wartime. As readers continue to think critically about Lincoln's image as the 'Great Emancipator,' this book centers African Americans' own voices to explore how they felt about the president and how they understood the possibilities and limits of the power invested in the federal government"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies. |2 bisacsh | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans |v Correspondence. | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Medford, Edna Greene, |e writer of foreword. | |
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