num_pages: 128
description: From the author of A Photobiography comes a clear-sighted carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were both self-taught both great readers and believers in the importance of literacy both men born poor who by their own efforts reached positions of power and prominenceLincoln as president of the United States and Douglass as the most famous and influential African American of his time. Though their meetings were few and brief their exchange of ideas helped to end the Civil War reunite the nation and abolish slavery. Includes bibliography source notes and index.
language: English
title: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt