Visits with Lincoln provides a balanced and readable discussion of ten abolitionists, male and female, black and white, who visited President Lincoln in the White House during the Civil War in an attempt to advance their goal of ending slavery immediately. The book paints a portrait of Lincoln through the eyes of his visitors and traces changes in his ideas and attitudes over the course of the war. The visitors include Jessie Benton Fremont, wife of Major General John Charles Fremont, the famous explorer and commander of the Union army's Department of the West; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Henry Ward Beecher, three members of the distinguished Beecher family; Frederick Douglas, former slave and recruiter of black soldiers; Anna Dickenson, Republican orator; William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, leaders of the Boston abolitionist movement; and Sojourner Truth, ex-slave and itinerant anti-slavery speaker.

Barbara A. White is professor emerita of women's studies at the University of New Hampshire.

1 Preface2 Acknowledgments3 Illustrations4 Timeline of the Civil War5 Chapter 1. Jessie Benton Frémont, September 18616 Chapter 2. Carl Schurz, Spring and Fall 18627 Chapter 3. Beecher Family, December 1862 and February 18658 Chapter 4. Frederick Douglass, August 1863 and August 18649 Chapter 5. Anna Dickinson, January and Spring 186410 Chapter 6. William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, March 1862, January 1863, and June 186411 Chapter 7. Sojourner Truth, October 186412 Chapter 8. Conclusion: Lincoln and His Visitors13 Bibliography