Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie YearsThis definitive, single-volume edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography delivers “a Lincoln whom no other man . . . could have given us” (New York Herald Tribune Book Review). Celebrated for his vivid depictions of the nineteenth-century American Midwest, Carl Sandburg brings unique insight to the life of Abraham Lincoln in this distinguished biography. He captures both the man who grew up on the Indiana prairie and the president who held the country together through the turbulence and tragedy of the Civil War. Based on a lifetime of research, Sandburg’s biographywas originally published as a monumental, six-volume study. The author later distilled the work down to this single-volume edition that is considered by many to be his greatest work of nonfiction. |
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... slaves owned by Richard Berry were busy getting ready the food and “fixins” to follow the wedding ceremony. The Reverend Jesse Head arrived on his gray mare. He was a man they rhymed about: His nose is long and his hair is red, And he ...
... slaves or " kaffles " moving on foot ahead of an overseer or slave trader on horseback , and sometimes in dandy carriages congressmen or legislative members going to sessions at Louisville . Here little Abe grew out of one shirt into ...
... slavery was on the rise and in 1816 there were 1,238 slaves on the tax lists of Hardin County, one taxpayer owning 58 Negro slaves, men, women and children, on the books valued along with horses, cows and other livestock. So when Tom ...
The Prairie Years Carl Sandburg. wrote, “partly on account of slavery; but chiefly on account of the difficulty in land titles.” In December 1816, Tom Lincoln with Nancy, Sarah, Abe, four horses and their most needed household goods ...
... slave were on the streets. Gangs of chained slaves passed, headed for cotton plantations of a thousand and more acres. Women wearing bright slippers and flashy gowns; Creoles with dusks of eyes; quadroons and octoroons.