Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
By Nikki Giovanni.
Description
Our sixteenth president is known for many things: he delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address during the Civil War. He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very visible public figure: Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born a slave but escaped in 1838 and became one of the central figures in the history of the American abolitionist movement.This book offers a glimpse into the unusual friendship between two great American leaders. At a...
ISBN(s)
1250018692, 9781250018694
