Frederick Douglass's first meeting with Lincoln in August 1863 was to protest discrimination against black soldiers serving in the Union Army. The second, which Lincoln initiated, concerned the Presidents 1864 re-election campaign. As a result of the meeting, Douglass reversed course and endorsed Lincoln. In later years, Douglass described Lincoln as preeminently the white mans President; however, in this early eulogy in which he describes him as the black mans President, he seems to have held a different view.

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