To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln (Johnathan W. White - DLM) Section- U.S. History General Absent a Secretary of Defense

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RICHARD BROOKHISER

from the innocence of Mary Surratt and Samuel Mudd to John Wilkes Booth’s escape to Oklahoma or India

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To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln (Johnathan W. White - DLM) Section- U.S. History General Absent a Secretary of DefenseTo Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White (Editor), Edna Greene Medford (Foreword) Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had