Lincoln and the former slave
By David W. Blight | Thursday, February 12, 2009 | The Boston Globe
“…In this season of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial, we would do well to remember the ways African-American slaves felt their own connections to the author of the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln described that document as ‘the central act of my administration, and the greatest event of the 19th century’….”…BS
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