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\nDrawing on speeches and letters by Frederick D ouglass\, some to British abolitionists that have not been seen since they were first written\, the lecture presents an account of how the great abo litionist came to appreciate Lincoln&rsquo\;s anti-slavery statesmanship o ver the course of the Civil War. The lecture derives from a recently publi shed book\, Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abrah am Lincoln\, \;co-edited by the lecturer\, Lucas Morel\, and Jonathan White.
\nLucas Morel is the John K. Boardman\, Jr. Professor of Poli tics and Head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University. He is the co-editor \;of Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln \;and author of Lincoln and the American Founding and \;Lincoln&rsquo\;s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion&rsquo \;s Role in American Self-Government\, and editor of Lincoln and Liberty: Wisdom for the Ages. \;
\nDr. Morel conducts high school teacher workshops for the Jack Miller Center\, Hillel-Civic Spirit\, Gilder-Lehrm an Institute\, Ashbrook Center\, Bill of Rights Institute\, and Liberty Fu nd. He is a former president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute\; a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance\; a consultant for the Library of Congress and National Archives\; and currently serves on the U.S. Semiqui ncentennial Commission\, which will plan activities to commemorate the fou nding of the United States of America. \;
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