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...David Blight's story on Douglass's July 5, 1852, speech, see time.com/lincoln
...Here comes my friend," Lincoln said, and took Douglass by the hand. "I am glad to see you. I saw you in the crowd today, listening to my inaugural address." He asked Douglass how he liked it, adding, "There is no man in the country whose opinion I value more than yours...
...Lincoln, that was a sacred effort," Douglass replied...
...month later, when news reached Douglass at his home in Rochester, N.Y, that Lincoln had been assassinated, he was overcome with grief. Later that day, he gave a short impromptu speech. "Though Abraham Lincoln dies, the Republic lives," he said, adding that the martyred President had "made us kin," uniting blacks and whites. He elaborated on Lincoln's legacy 11 years later, at the unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Washington, offering a tender verdict from the perspective of someone who had been converted. If you judge him from the point of view of a pure abolitionist, Douglass said...
...showing how different aspects of Lincoln's deep emotional intelligence made him a highly effective leader. Lincoln scholar Douglas L. Wilson probes the sources of Lincoln's rhetorical powers; Harvard professor John Stauffer focuses on Lincoln's surprising relationship with another towering figure of that age, abolitionist Frederick Douglass; and Illinois Senator Barack Obama, who holds the seat Lincoln tried and failed to gain, explains the man's enduring power to inspire...