The Lincolns in the White House: Four Years That Shattered a FamilySt. Martin's Publishing Group, 17 сент. 2013 г. - Всего страниц: 304 From the day of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration, a nation divided by savage conflict confronted the new president. But what many don't know was that within the White House's walls, the Lincoln's family would soon find itself suffering turmoil mirroring that of the nation he led. |
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... slavery had counted above all else in the just concluded election. Slavery indeed oven/vhelmed every other public concern in America, nearly so much that other quarrels about politics and social differences mattered relatively little. A ...
... slave states in the speech's final paragraph. In his frontier cadences and high-pitched voice, Lincoln spoke words that would either thrill or dismay, leaving the nation's thirty-one million people frighteningly little ground for ...
... slave city, sandwiched between the slave states of Maryland and Virginia. The capital itself was thoroughly steeped in slave culture, the owning of black Africans perfectly lawful and accepted without demur by the District's white ...
... slaves could be and often were flogged for whatever actions their owners found objectionable, and that “catchers” could legally kill slaves attempting to escape. Such realities represented the underside of Mary's childhood experience ...
... slave, at the age of thirty-eight she had bought her freedom from her owner and, in her hometown of St. Louis, made a comfortable life for herself as a seamstress, her extraordinary skills bringing her substantial business and even ...
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THREE Calamity in War Calamity at Home | |
FOUR Death in the White House | |
SEVEN An Unfinished Work | |
EPILOGUE The Flying Dutchman | |
NOTES | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
INDEX | |
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