Readings and links on Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln for the research review.

Douglass, Frederick.  “Learning to Read and Write.”

http://learningabe.info/fd_ReadandWrite

Douglass, Frederick.  “Secession and War,” in which he recounts advising President Lincoln during the war on recruiting for the African-American brigades.

http://www.learningabe.info/Douglass_article_3.html

Here’s the Wikipedia entry on the famous 54th Massachusetts Brigade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/54th_Massachusetts_Infantry_Regiment

Here’s the lecture of Professor Edna Greene Medford on Abraham Lincoln

https://www.c-span.org/video/?466542-8/abraham-lincoln-emancipation

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