Episode 1 of 1

First White House Meeting with African Americans

Name: First White House Meeting with African Americans
Start: 1862-08-14
Location: White House

When: 14 August 1862
Where: White House
Part of: Lincoln meets African-American leaders on colonization

Lincoln hosted a delegation of African Americans at the White House, lecturing them on racial tensions.

On August 14, 1862, Lincoln invited African Americans to the White House, the first such event. He lectured five well-educated members of Washington's black elite, stating that "But for your race among us there could not be war."

Sources

Abraham Lincoln and slavery Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-05

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.