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  • The Influence Freed Slaves May Have Had on the Boy Abraham Lincoln

    “You may remember, as I well do … there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio … It is hardly fair for you to assume, that I have no interest…

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    Anna-Lisa Cox






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    March 15, 2014
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