Visits With Lincoln
Abolitionists Meet The President at the White House
By (author) Barbara A. White
Not available to order
Publication date:
16 September 2011Length of book:
180 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9780739164181
Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, who visited President Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War in an attempt to advance their goal of ending slavery immediately. The book paints a portrait of Lincoln through the eyes of his visitors and traces changes in his ideas and attitudes over the course of the war. The visitors include Jessie Benton Fremont, wife of Major General John Charles Fremont, the famous explorer and commander of the Union army's Department of the West; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Henry Ward Beecher, three members of the distinguished Beecher family; Frederick Douglas, former slave and recruiter of black soldiers; Anna Dickenson, Republican orator; William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, leaders of the Boston abolitionist movement; and Sojourner Truth, ex-slave and itinerant anti-slavery speaker.
Visits with Lincoln does deliver a well-written collection of historical vignettes, centered on Lincoln’s interactions with a myriad of fascinating individuals whose primary goal was the abolition of slavery. The author engages the reader by offering interesting details about Lincoln’s meetings with abolitionists, and it is very easy to delight in the first-hand visitor accounts of their impressions of our most iconic president.