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By Russell Freedman

From the writer of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, conscientiously researched account of 2 unusually parallel lives and the way they intersected at a serious second in U.S. heritage. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass have been either self-taught, either nice readers and believers within the significance of literacy, either males born bad who by means of their very own efforts reached positions of strength and prominence—Lincoln as president of the U.S. and Douglass because the most famed and influential African American of his time. notwithstanding their conferences have been few and short, their alternate of principles helped to finish the Civil battle, reunite the kingdom, and abolish slavery. contains bibliography, resource notes, and index.

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