Documents & Debates: "To Address You As My Friend": African-Americans' Letters to Lincoln
The American Idea · Ashbrook Center
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Show Notes
Jeff discusses the fascinating and encouraging relationship between African-Americans - some well-known today and many forgotten - and Lincoln, through letters written to the president, providing compelling insight into the views people had of and for Lincoln during the Civil War. Find Jon's book here: https://www.amazon.com/Address-You-My-Friend-Americans-ebook/dp/B0915C56Z7?ref_=ast_author_dp
Read Douglass's "Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?"
Op-Ed here.
Host: Jeff Sikkenga
Executive Producer: Greg McBrayer
Producer: Jeremy Gypton
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