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Abraham Lincoln, American Prince - Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Paperback)
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Abraham Lincoln, American Prince - Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause (Paperback)
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The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his two most
influential ancestors, his mother and "the Virginia planter," a
slaveholder, a shadowy grandfather he likely never met, is rarely
mentioned in Lincoln biographies or in history texts. However,
Lincoln, forever linked to the cause of freedom and equality in
America, spoke candidly of the planter to his law partner, Billy
Herndon, who recalled his words, "My mother inherited his qualities
and I hers. All that I am or ever hope to be I get from my
mother-God bless her." This vital two-generation relationship was
nonetheless problematic. In Lincoln's boyhood the planter was a
figure he ridiculed while in his young manhood the planter evolved
into a role model whom Lincoln revered and associated with
Jefferson's overdue ideal that "all men are created equal." Thus
galvanized "by blood" to educate himself, to stand for election and
to oppose slavery, Lincoln quit farming at age 22. This book
explains how he thus followed an inherited family dream.
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