A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
- ISBN-10
- 153816180X
- ISBN-13
- 9781538161807
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022-02-15
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Author
- Jonathan W. White
Description
Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era.
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