How the 1st Black Canadian to be licensed as a doctor got a ‘prized’ shawl from Abraham Lincoln’s widow

How the 1st Black Canadian to be licensed as a doctor got a ‘prized’ shawl from Abraham Lincoln’s widow

More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with President Abraham Lincoln continue to fascinate people.Abbott, a man of notable firsts, is included in Jill L. Newmark's book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous

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