Mississippi in Africa : [the saga of the slaves of prospect hill plantation and their legacy in Liberia today] / Alan Huffman.
In 1847, in a small rural courthouse in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln represented a Kentucky slave owner named Robert Matson in his attempt to recover a runaway slave woman and her four children. Most Americans, even those with a penchant for the nation's history, have never heard of...
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