including likely, drafts of the Emancipation Proclamation. See also Lincoln's Lost Speech George Washington and slavery Thomas Jefferson and slavery John Quincy Adams and abolitionism Timeline of the civil rights movement References Further reading Burlingame, Michael (2021). The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality. Pegasus Books. Carwardine, Richard (2006). Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Chaput, Erik J. "The Bitter Fruit of Freedom: Struggles over Land, Labor, and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation." Reviews in American History 44.1 (2016): 118-125. ResearchGate JSTOR Cox, LaWanda. Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership. University of South Carolina Press, 1981). Crofts, Daniel W. Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery: The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union (University of North Carolina Press, 2016). Danoff, Brian. "Lincoln and the 'Necessity' of Tolerating Slavery before the Civil War." Review of Politics 77.1 (2015): 47–71 online. Dirck, Brian R., ed. Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race (Northern Illinois University Press (2007). Pulitzer Prize winner. Review Second edition, 2022. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. Holzer, Harold and Sara Vaughn Gabbard. Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007). Kendrick, Paul, and Kendrick, Stephen (2007). Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union (Bloomsbury Publishing USA). Oakes, James. The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution (W. W. Norton & Co., 2021). Oakes, James. The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War (W. W. Norton & Co., 2014). Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865 (W. W. Norton & Co., 2012). Page, Sebastian N. Black Resettlement and the American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Quarles, Benjamin. Lincoln and the Negro (Oxford University Press, 1962). Striner, Richard. Lincoln and Race (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012). White, Jonathan W. (2022). A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House (Rowman & Littlefield). Primary sources Johnson, Michael P., ed. Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writing and Speeches (Macmillan Higher Education, 2010). Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. Lincoln on Race & Slavery (Princeton University Press, 2009). External links Four short videos intended for school instruction (grades 5–8). slavery American colonization movement Anti-racism