Description: Abraham Lincoln, American Prince : Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause, Paperback by Soini, Wayne, ISBN 1476688125, ISBN-13 9781476688121, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 withJefferson'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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Book Title: Abraham Lincoln, American Prince : Ancestry, Ambition and the Ant
Number of Pages: 211 Pages
Publication Name: Abraham Lincoln, American Prince : Ancestry, Ambition and the Anti-Slavery Cause
Language: English
Publisher: Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Presidents & Heads of State, United States / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Wayne Soini
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
