What was the relationship between Lincoln and Frederick Douglass like?
-8th Grade, Ascension School, Louisville, KY Lincoln and Douglass only met 3 times. The first time was in the summer of 1863. Douglass came to the White House to ask Lincoln to equalize the pay between black and white soldiers. The second meeting was about a year later, when Lincoln invited Douglass to the W.H. to tell him that he (the president) wanted Douglass to help devise a plan that would get as many enslaved people out of the Confederacy as possible. Lincoln was concerned that a peace agreement would be made and that those enslaved people who had been promised freedom by the Emancipation Proclamation would be stranded behind the rebel lines. The plan never materialized because no peace agreement was made. The third time was when Douglass went to the White House to congratulate Lincoln on winning a second term. As a black man, Douglass was barred from entry, but someone told Lincoln that Douglass was at the door. Lincoln ordered that he be allowed in, and treated him cordially wh
