To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln (Johnathan W. White - DLM) Section- U.S. History General breadbasket of the Confederacy and

breadbasket of the Confederacy and the South's key invasion route into the North

inspiring a wave of prose

will find themselves looking to God and each other to get them through

Absent a Secretary of Defense

by Jack Levin

To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln (Johnathan W. White - DLM) Section- U.S. History General breadbasket of the Confederacy andTo Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White (Editor), Edna Greene Medford (Foreword) Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had