Lincoln Expert Speaks about the President’s Relations With African-American

Wed 11/3 @ 7PM

Michael Burlingame is a historian with a special interest in our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln; in fact, he’s the Distinguished Chair in Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield, a town that’s drenched in Lincolnalia.

He’s written a veritable library of books about this seminal president, and, his bio says, “he is working on several Lincoln-related projects.” Meanwhile, his latest Lincoln book has just hit the shelves. Titled TheBlack Man’s President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Equality, it details Lincoln’s thoughts about and actions toward America’s Black residents, most of whom were slaves when he took office, and all of whom could look forward to freedom by the time he was assassinated in 1865, a journey that occupied his whole presidency alongside the Civil War: a war fought over slavery. It’s a fight that still impacts our country today in many ways.

Burlingame will be speaking virtually through the Hudson Library & Historical Society. It’s free but you must register here. Copies of Burlingame’s book will be available for purchase through Hudson’s Learned Owl Book Shop.

 

 

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