Visits with Lincoln
Abolitionists Meet the President at the White House

Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, to visit President Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War. It paints a portrait of Lincoln through the eyes of the visitors, who include a variety of important historical figures-Jessie Fremont, Carl Schurz, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, Anna Dickinson, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, and Sojourner Truth. Through their accounts, White traces changes in Lincoln's ideas and attitudes over the course of the war.

1 Preface 2 Acknowledgments 3 Illustrations 4 Timeline of the Civil War 5 Chapter 1. Jessie Benton Fremont, September 1861 6 Chapter 2. Carl Schurz, Spring and Fall 1862 7 Chapter 3. Beecher Family, December 1862 and February 1865 8 Chapter 4. Frederick Douglass, August 1863 and August 1864 9 Chapter 5. Anna Dickinson, January and Spring 1864 10 Chapter 6. William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, March 1862, January 1863, and June 1864 11 Chapter 7. Sojourner Truth, October 1864 12 Chapter 8. Conclusion: Lincoln and His Visitors 13 Bibliography