The Black Man's President Gifts Gordon-Reed—herself a Texas native and

Gordon-Reed—herself a Texas native and the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas as early as the 1820s—forges a new and profoundly truthful narrative of her home state

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The Black Man's President Gifts Gordon-Reed—herself a Texas native andFrederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president as well as the first who rose above the prejudice of his times and country. This narrative history of Lincolns personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood. Author: Michael Burlingame. Hardcover; 320 pages. #21109407