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SLAVERY AND THE CIVIL WAR: Selections From a Private Collection
While the immediate abolition of slavery was not one of Lincoln’s aims as President, as the Civil War went on Lincoln saw the ending, or at least curtailment, of slavery as a potent weapon to use against the South. Indeed, were it not for the Civil War, slavery would have continued for some time in the […]
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