Critics are warning that without swift intervention, "we risk losing these historical assets" at Lincoln's New Salem site.
Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years ...
Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...
The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...
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