29 Okt 1864 Jahr - Truth meets Abraham Lincoln

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"Sojourner Truth spoke in support of Abraham Lincoln’s 1864 reelection campaign during several stops made in George B. McClellan’s home state of New Jersey on her way to Washington, DC. [...]She was traveling from Michigan to the nation’s capital to work for the new Freedmen’s Relief Association. Truth was sixty-seven years old at the time and had long been a leading activist for abolition, temperance, and women’s rights. While in Washington, she decided to pay a visit to Lincoln but found that she was unable to secure an appointment on her own and thus called on Lucy N. Coleman, a white abolitionist working for the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children. Coleman reached out to Mary Lincoln’s confidante, Elizabeth Keckley, and a visit was arranged for October 29, 1864, a week or so before Lincoln’s pivotal reelection."

https://www.lincolnian.org/post/lincoln-meets-sojourner-truth-in-the-white-house

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