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James Ashley, another ?Great Emancipator?

By Rebecca Zietlow

Next month, our country will celebrate the 200th birthday of The Great Emancipator, President Abraham Lincoln.  Lincoln deserves  his revered status in our history.  He presided over the nation during the Civil War which preserved the Union; he freed the slaves with his Emancipation Proclamation and his advocacy for the Thirteenth Amendment.  However, Lincoln was not [...]

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).