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[Frederick Douglass] and Abraham Lincoln met three times during the course of the Civil War. Douglass's feelings about Lincoln had changed markedly between 1860, when Lincoln was elected president, and 1865, when Douglass, with the rest of the nation, was morning Lincoln's death.
Initially suspicious of Lincoln's intentions regarding the abolition of slavery and the equality of African Americans, by 1864 Douglass came to realize that he and the president shared a vision of the United States as the "home of freedom disenthralled, regenerated, enlarged."See the full content of this document
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Frederick Douglass Remembers Lincoln
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln met thr...
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