| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union. By Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick. (New York: Walker, 2008. x, 306 pp. $26.95, ISBN 978-0-8027-1523-4.)

In Douglass and Lincoln, Paul Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick attempt to tell the story of emancipation during the American Civil War through the eyes of two of its most compelling figures. The interaction between the two is largely imagined, as Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln only met face to face three times. In essence, this is a parallel study of two prominent figures that stand in for the wider debate over emancipation between abolitionist and political communities during the Civil War. The book does little to change the prevailing view of the two men; nor is it the sole study of Lincoln and Douglass's relationship over slavery to come out in recent years. Despite its lack of originality, Douglass and Lincoln is a compelling read that can be strongly recommended for popular audiences of history.

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