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Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

By Fred Lee Hord (Editor), Matthew D. Norman (Editor), Fred Lee Hord (Introduction), Matthew D. Norman (Introduction), Rodney O. Davis (Contribution by), Douglas L. Wilson (Contribution by), Michael Burlingame (Contribution by), Richard Carwardine (Contribution by), Edna Greene Medford (Contribution by), James Oakes (Contribution by), Matthew Pinsker (Contribution by), Gerald J Prokopowicz (Contribution by), John R Sellers (Contribution by), Jennifer L Weber (Contribution by), Frederick Douglass (Contribution by), H. Ford Douglas (Contribution by), Thomas Hamilton (Contribution by), Robert Hamilton (Contribution by), Jabez P Campbell (Contribution by), Henry McNeal Turner (Contribution by), Daniel Alexander Payne (Contribution by), Henry Highland Garnet (Contribution by), Philip A Bell (Contribution by), Edward M Thomas (Contribution by), Alfred P Smith (Contribution by), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Contribution by), George B Vashon (Contribution by), Thomas Strother (Contribution by), Ezra R Johnson (Contribution by), Alexander T CPS (Contribution by), James Smith (Contribution by), Alexander T Augusta (Contribution by), Jeremiah B Sanderson (Contribution by), Osborne P Anderson (Contribution by), Thomas Morris Chester (Contribution by), James H Hudson (Contribution by), John Proctor (Contribution by), Robert Purvis (Contribution by), Hannah Johnson (Contribution by), Leonard A Grimes (Contribution by), Jeremiah Asher (Contribution by), John Willis Menard (Contribution by), Henry African Civilization Society (Contribution by), William Florville (Contribution by), Henry Johnson (Contribution by), Thomas R Street (Contribution by), John H Morgan (Contribution by), Mattild Burr (Contribution by), Amos G Beman (Contribution by), Richard H Cain (Contribution by), Jean Baptiste Roudanez (Contribution by), Arnold Bertonneau (Contribution by), George E North Carolina Freedmen (Contribution by), Don Carlos Rutter (Contribution by), George E Stephens (Contribution by), James W.C Pennington (Contribution by), S.W. "Africano" (Contribution by), Annie Davis (Contribution by), S.W. Chase (Contribution by), Sojourner Truth (Contribution by), Martin Delany (Contribution by), George Washington (Contribution by), Isaac J Hill (Contribution by), Alexander H Newton (Contribution by), Jacob Thomas (Contribution by), Angeline R Demby (Contribution by), Henry O Wagoner (Contribution by), George W Le Vere (Contribution by), Elizabeth Keckley (Contribution by), Paul Trevigne (Contribution by), Thomas N.C Liverpool (Contribution by), H Cordelia (Contribution by), George Washington Williams (Contribution by), Emmanuel K Love (Contribution by), William S Scarborough (Contribution by), John Mercer Langston (Contribution by), Peter H Clark (Contribution by), EWS Hammond (Contribution by), Charles W Anderson (Contribution by), Booker T. Washington (Contribution by), Harriet Tubman (Contribution by), Julius F Taylor (Contribution by), Ida B Wells-Barnett (Contribution by), Paul Laurence Dunbar (Contribution by), Elizabeth Thomas (Contribution by), Archibald H Grimke (Contribution by), Elizabeth Keckly (Contribution by), William A Sinclair (Contribution by), Jesse Max Barber (Contribution by), Mary Church Terrell (Contribution by), T. Thomas Fortune (Contribution by), Reverdy C Ransom (Contribution by), W. E. B. Du Bois (Contribution by), William Monroe Trotter (Contribution by), Maude K Griffin (Contribution by), Hightower T Kealing (Contribution by), Silas X Floyd (Contribution by), George L Knox (Contribution by), Thomas S Inborden (Contribution by), George W Henderson (Contribution by), William Pickens (Contribution by), Kelly Miller (Contribution by), Etta M. T. Cottin (Contribution by), John M Gandy (Contribution by), Fred R Moore (Contribution by), Sylvanie F Williams (Contribution by), Harry C Smith (Contribution by), James H Magee (Contribution by), James L Curtis (Contribution by), John W. E. Bowen Sr (Contribution by), Cora J Ball (Contribution by), Thomas Nelson Baker (Contribution by), Josephine Silone Yates (Contribution by), James Weldon Johnson (Contribution by), William H Lewis (Contribution by), John H Murphy Sr (Contribution by), Robert R Wright Sr (Contribution by), Theophile T Allain (Contribution by), Oliva Ward Bush-Banks (Contribution by), Richard W Gadsden (Contribution by), Edward A Johnson (Contribution by), Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Contribution by), Hubert H Harrison (Contribution by), Carter G Woodson (Contribution by), Robert R Moton (Contribution by), Georgia Douglas Johnson (Contribution by), LANGSTON HUGHES (Contribution by), Charles Chesnutt (Contribution by), Walter White (Contribution by), Lamar Perkins (Contribution by), Samuel A Haynes (Contribution by), William E Lilly (Contribution by), Robert L Vann (Contribution by), William Lloyd Imes (Contribution by), Eugene Gordon (Contribution by), Arthur W Mitchell (Contribution by), Grace Evans (Contribution by), Aaron H Payne (Contribution by), Claude McKay (Contribution by), Roscoe Conkling Simmons (Contribution by), Joel A Rogers (Contribution by), Mary McLeod Bethune (Contribution by), John Hope Franklin (Contribution by), Ella Baker (Contribution by), Luther Porter Jackson (Contribution by), Willard Townsend (Contribution by), Ralph J Bunche (Contribution by), Roy Wilkins (Contribution by), Mordecai W Johnson (Contribution by), Carl J Murphy (Contribution by), Jackie Robinson (Contribution by), Martin Luther King Jr. (Contribution by), Thurgood Marshall (Contribution by), Edith Sampson (Contribution by), Benjamin Quarles (Contribution by), St. Clair Drake (Contribution by), Charles H Wesley (Contribution by), Daisy Bates (Contribution by), Julius Malcolm X (Contribution by), Gwendolyn Brooks (Contribution by), Julius Lester (Contribution by), Lerone Bennett Jr (Contribution by), Henry Lee Moon (Contribution by), John H Sengstacke (Contribution by), Norman E. W. Hodges (Contribution by), Arvarh E. Strickland (Contribution by), Mary Frances Berry (Contribution by), Vincent Harding (Contribution by), Clarence Thomas (Contribution by), Barbara Jeanne Fields (Contribution by), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Contribution by), Barack Obama (Contribution by)
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By Fred Lee Hord (Editor), Matthew D. Norman (Editor), Fred Lee Hord (Introduction), Matthew D. Norman (Introduction), Rodney O. Davis (Contribution by), Douglas L. Wilson (Contribution by), Michael Burlingame (Contribution by), Richard Carwardine (Contribution by), Edna Greene Medford (Contribution by), James Oakes (Contribution by), Matthew Pinsker (Contribution by), Gerald J Prokopowicz (Contribution by), John R Sellers (Contribution by), Jennifer L Weber (Contribution by), Frederick Douglass (Contribution by), H. Ford Douglas (Contribution by), Thomas Hamilton (Contribution by), Robert Hamilton (Contribution by), Jabez P Campbell (Contribution by), Henry McNeal Turner (Contribution by), Daniel Alexander Payne (Contribution by), Henry Highland Garnet (Contribution by), Philip A Bell (Contribution by), Edward M Thomas (Contribution by), Alfred P Smith (Contribution by), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Contribution by), George B Vashon (Contribution by), Thomas Strother (Contribution by), Ezra R Johnson (Contribution by), Alexander T CPS (Contribution by), James Smith (Contribution by), Alexander T Augusta (Contribution by), Jeremiah B Sanderson (Contribution by), Osborne P Anderson (Contribution by), Thomas Morris Chester (Contribution by), James H Hudson (Contribution by), John Proctor (Contribution by), Robert Purvis (Contribution by), Hannah Johnson (Contribution by), Leonard A Grimes (Contribution by), Jeremiah Asher (Contribution by), John Willis Menard (Contribution by), Henry African Civilization Society (Contribution by), William Florville (Contribution by), Henry Johnson (Contribution by), Thomas R Street (Contribution by), John H Morgan (Contribution by), Mattild Burr (Contribution by), Amos G Beman (Contribution by), Richard H Cain (Contribution by), Jean Baptiste Roudanez (Contribution by), Arnold Bertonneau (Contribution by), George E North Carolina Freedmen (Contribution by), Don Carlos Rutter (Contribution by), George E Stephens (Contribution by), James W.C Pennington (Contribution by), S.W. "Africano" (Contribution by), Annie Davis (Contribution by), S.W. Chase (Contribution by), Sojourner Truth (Contribution by), Martin Delany (Contribution by), George Washington (Contribution by), Isaac J Hill (Contribution by), Alexander H Newton (Contribution by), Jacob Thomas (Contribution by), Angeline R Demby (Contribution by), Henry O Wagoner (Contribution by), George W Le Vere (Contribution by), Elizabeth Keckley (Contribution by), Paul Trevigne (Contribution by), Thomas N.C Liverpool (Contribution by), H Cordelia (Contribution by), George Washington Williams (Contribution by), Emmanuel K Love (Contribution by), William S Scarborough (Contribution by), John Mercer Langston (Contribution by), Peter H Clark (Contribution by), EWS Hammond (Contribution by), Charles W Anderson (Contribution by), Booker T. Washington (Contribution by), Harriet Tubman (Contribution by), Julius F Taylor (Contribution by), Ida B Wells-Barnett (Contribution by), Paul Laurence Dunbar (Contribution by), Elizabeth Thomas (Contribution by), Archibald H Grimke (Contribution by), Elizabeth Keckly (Contribution by), William A Sinclair (Contribution by), Jesse Max Barber (Contribution by), Mary Church Terrell (Contribution by), T. Thomas Fortune (Contribution by), Reverdy C Ransom (Contribution by), W. E. B. Du Bois (Contribution by), William Monroe Trotter (Contribution by), Maude K Griffin (Contribution by), Hightower T Kealing (Contribution by), Silas X Floyd (Contribution by), George L Knox (Contribution by), Thomas S Inborden (Contribution by), George W Henderson (Contribution by), William Pickens (Contribution by), Kelly Miller (Contribution by), Etta M. T. Cottin (Contribution by), John M Gandy (Contribution by), Fred R Moore (Contribution by), Sylvanie F Williams (Contribution by), Harry C Smith (Contribution by), James H Magee (Contribution by), James L Curtis (Contribution by), John W. E. Bowen Sr (Contribution by), Cora J Ball (Contribution by), Thomas Nelson Baker (Contribution by), Josephine Silone Yates (Contribution by), James Weldon Johnson (Contribution by), William H Lewis (Contribution by), John H Murphy Sr (Contribution by), Robert R Wright Sr (Contribution by), Theophile T Allain (Contribution by), Oliva Ward Bush-Banks (Contribution by), Richard W Gadsden (Contribution by), Edward A Johnson (Contribution by), Alice Dunbar-Nelson (Contribution by), Hubert H Harrison (Contribution by), Carter G Woodson (Contribution by), Robert R Moton (Contribution by), Georgia Douglas Johnson (Contribution by), LANGSTON HUGHES (Contribution by), Charles Chesnutt (Contribution by), Walter White (Contribution by), Lamar Perkins (Contribution by), Samuel A Haynes (Contribution by), William E Lilly (Contribution by), Robert L Vann (Contribution by), William Lloyd Imes (Contribution by), Eugene Gordon (Contribution by), Arthur W Mitchell (Contribution by), Grace Evans (Contribution by), Aaron H Payne (Contribution by), Claude McKay (Contribution by), Roscoe Conkling Simmons (Contribution by), Joel A Rogers (Contribution by), Mary McLeod Bethune (Contribution by), John Hope Franklin (Contribution by), Ella Baker (Contribution by), Luther Porter Jackson (Contribution by), Willard Townsend (Contribution by), Ralph J Bunche (Contribution by), Roy Wilkins (Contribution by), Mordecai W Johnson (Contribution by), Carl J Murphy (Contribution by), Jackie Robinson (Contribution by), Martin Luther King Jr. (Contribution by), Thurgood Marshall (Contribution by), Edith Sampson (Contribution by), Benjamin Quarles (Contribution by), St. Clair Drake (Contribution by), Charles H Wesley (Contribution by), Daisy Bates (Contribution by), Julius Malcolm X (Contribution by), Gwendolyn Brooks (Contribution by), Julius Lester (Contribution by), Lerone Bennett Jr (Contribution by), Henry Lee Moon (Contribution by), John H Sengstacke (Contribution by), Norman E. W. Hodges (Contribution by), Arvarh E. Strickland (Contribution by), Mary Frances Berry (Contribution by), Vincent Harding (Contribution by), Clarence Thomas (Contribution by), Barbara Jeanne Fields (Contribution by), Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Contribution by), Barack Obama (Contribution by)
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Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award

Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Thurgood Ma...