Examines Abraham Lincoln's attitudes toward slavery, focusing on his years as president when he worked on the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves, and on record: discussing his belief that the spread of slavery would destroy democracy.
year: 1999
call number/section: 973.7, 920
subjects: lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, views on slavery, juvenile literature, douglass, frederick, 1817?-1895, slaves, emancipation, united states, juvenile literature, presidents, slavery, united states, politics and government, 1861-1865, juvenile literature, 1861-1865, civil war