"With the stroke of a pen, President Abraham Lincoln freed the South's enslaved people in the midst of the brutal U.S. Civil War. Or did he? Who did the Emancipation Proclamation really free? What effect did it have on the course of the Civil War? And what became of the inkstand with which he wrote the famous document? Find the answers to these questions and discover more of what an artifact can tell us about history"--Back cover.
year: 2022
call number/section: 973.7
subjects: united states, president (1861-1865 : lincoln), emancipation proclamation, juvenile literature, lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, juvenile literature, slaves, emancipation, united states, juvenile literature, slavery, history, united states, politics and government, 1861-1865, juvenile literature, history, civil war, 1861-1865, 1861-1865, civil war, emancipation proclamation