The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) Shaara was never a state of

was never a state of being but a process of becoming

Lincoln expressed an intellectually grounded piety that placed his beloved Union under the judgment of both history and God

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The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality (Michael Burlingame - LP) Shaara was never a state ofby Michael Burlingame Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president as well as the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country. This narrative history of Lincolns personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood. In a little noted eulogy delivered shortly after Lincoln's