When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation (Lisa Waller Rogers - BH) Section-Letters/memoirs 85 illustrations

85 illustrations

This interesting memoir describes one man's journey through the American Civil War

Release date: June 1

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When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation (Lisa Waller Rogers - BH) Section-Letters/memoirs 85 illustrationsDuring the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and killing abolitionists, burning buildings, drafting frightening new laws and repealing others, and terrorizing and abducting Northern free Blacks. Northerners began to realize that the Slave Power would not rest until slavery was allowed to plant itself all