Lincoln and Emancipation
- Video
- 2009
- 40m
"Mary, I was losing interest in politics, but this has aroused me again!" Expansion of slavery is the explosive issue that draws Springfield lawyer Abraham Lincoln back into the political sc... Read all"Mary, I was losing interest in politics, but this has aroused me again!" Expansion of slavery is the explosive issue that draws Springfield lawyer Abraham Lincoln back into the political scene. Our founding fathers, he claims, sought to contain slavery so it would die out. But n... Read all"Mary, I was losing interest in politics, but this has aroused me again!" Expansion of slavery is the explosive issue that draws Springfield lawyer Abraham Lincoln back into the political scene. Our founding fathers, he claims, sought to contain slavery so it would die out. But now, in the 1850s, it appears that slavery may overrun the entire country. "If slavery is n... Read all