Copy of "my interview with Lincoln", March 8, 1889.

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Copy of "my interview with Lincoln", March 8, 1889.

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Typed, autographed copy of a reminiscence by Samuel of his meeting with the president. Explains the reason for the meeting, gives the names of those in attendance and tells his conversation with Lincoln re: wages, the same for blacks as whites. States that the War Department's order that Negroes be paid the same wages for soldiering and as teamsters that whites were paid was " the first recognition by the government...that the colored man was a man and not chattel."

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Samuel, Henry

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Member of a delegation from the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Troops, of which he was secretary, that met with Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to discuss the situation of Negroes in the Army. From the description of Copy of "my interview with Lincoln", March 8, 1889. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 54484884 ...