Knowing Him by Heart

African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award

Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, Gwendolyn Brooks, Barbara Jeanne Fields, Barack Obama, and dozens of others. The selections move from speeches to letters to book excerpts, mapping the changing contours of the bond--emotional and intellectual--between Lincoln and Black Americans over the span of one hundred and fifty years.

A comprehensive and valuable reader, Knowing Him by Heart examines Lincoln’s still-evolving place in Black American thought.

Contributor: Fred Lee Hord (Edited by), Matthew D. Norman (Edited by), Fred Lee Hord (Introduction by), Matthew D. Norman (Introduction by), Rodney O. Davis (Contributions by), Douglas L. Wilson (Contributions by), Michael Burlingame (Contributions by), Richard Carwardine (Contributions by), Edna Greene Medford (Contributions by), James Oakes (Contributions by), Matthew Pinsker (Contributions by), Gerald J Prokopowicz (Contributions by), John R Sellers (Contributions by), Jennifer L Weber (Contributions by), Frederick Douglass (Contributions by), H. Ford Douglas (Contributions by), Thomas Hamilton (Contributions by), Robert Hamilton (Contributions by), Jabez P Campbell (Contributions by), Henry McNeal Turner (Contributions by), Daniel Alexander Payne (Contributions by), Henry Highland Garnet (Contributions by), Philip A Bell (Contributions by), Edward M Thomas (Contributions by), Alfred P Smith (Contributions by), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Contributions by), George B Vashon (Contributions by), Thomas Strother (Contributions by), Ezra R Johnson (Contributions by), CPS (Contributions by), James Smith (Contributions by), Alexander T Augusta (Contributions by), Jeremiah B Sanderson (Contributions by), Osborne P Anderson (Contributions by), Thomas Morris Chester (Contributions by), James H Hudson (Contributions by), John Proctor (Contributions by), Robert Purvis (Contributions by), Hannah Johnson (Contributions by), Leonard A Grimes (Contributions by), Jeremiah Asher (Contributions by), John Willis Menard (Contributions by), African Civilization Society (Contributions by), William Florville (Contributions by), Henry Johnson (Contributions by), Thomas R Street (Contributions by), John H Morgan (Contributions by), Mattild Burr (Contributions by), Amos G Beman (Contributions by), Richard H Cain (Contributions by), Jean Baptiste Roudanez (Contributions by), Arnold Bertonneau (Contributions by), North Carolina Freedmen (Contributions by), Don Carlos Rutter (Contributions by), George E Stephens (Contributions by), James W.C Pennington (Contributions by), "Africano" (Contributions by), Annie Davis (Contributions by), S.W. 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