Examines the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln that gave freedom to all slaves living in territory still held by the Confederacy and provides information on the slave trade, Missouri Compromise, Fugitive Slave Law, Underground Railroad, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
year: 2005
call number/section: 973.7, 973.71
subjects: lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, juvenile literature, slaves, emancipation, united states, juvenile literature, united states, politics and government, 1861-1865, juvenile literature, 1861-1865, civil war