A New Order
Mar 29, 2022
2 minutes
–Rick Beard
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From the moment Abraham Lincoln was elected president, both enslaved and free African Americans held high expectations that he would ease their burdens. Jonathan White’s selection of letters offers glimpses of what many Blacks hoped for and how they viewed Lincoln—unlike any of his predecessors—as an approachable friend.
White has divided
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