Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsThis biography is drawn from the six volume work on Lincoln and new research uncovered since the original publication. |
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... slavery ; agitators of slave revolts would be hanged and had been . The 3,000,000 Negro workers in the Southern States on the tax books were livestock valued at more than a billion dollars . In political parties and churches , in ...
... slavery ; agitators of slave revolts would be hanged and had been . The 3,000,000 Negro workers in the Southern States on the tax books were livestock valued at more than a billion dollars . In political parties and churches , in ...
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... slavery im- mediately and without reservations in the District of Columbia . He loved his fellow boarder Joshua Giddings , a big , hearty , earnest , honest , rugged Buckeye of a man , but he couldn't vote for Giddings ' bill to make a ...
... slavery im- mediately and without reservations in the District of Columbia . He loved his fellow boarder Joshua Giddings , a big , hearty , earnest , honest , rugged Buckeye of a man , but he couldn't vote for Giddings ' bill to make a ...
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... slavery question , and those who didn't , understood Lincoln's inquiry : " You say it [ slavery ] is wrong ; but don't you constantly . . . argue that this is not the right place to oppose it ? You say it must not be opposed in the free ...
... slavery question , and those who didn't , understood Lincoln's inquiry : " You say it [ slavery ] is wrong ; but don't you constantly . . . argue that this is not the right place to oppose it ? You say it must not be opposed in the free ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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