Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC
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In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Sprigg's hosted lively dinner-table debates of antislavery politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually rapid turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were frequent escapes north to freedom from Abolition House, likely a cog in the underground railroad. These early years in Washington proved formative...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393081559
ISBN13:9780393081558
Release Date:August 2013
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:512 Pages
Weight:2.14 lbs.
Dimensions:1.7" x 6.7" x 9.5"
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