President Lincoln and the Chicago Memorial of Emancipation, a Paper Read Before the Maryland Histori (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781022015265)

This paper recounts Abraham Lincoln's visit to Chicago in 1863, during which he was presented with a memorial calling for the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. The author examines the politics and rhetoric surrounding the memorial and Lincoln's response to it.

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