All these free blacks are the descendants of slaves, or have been slaves themselves, and they would be slaves now, but for SOMETHING which has operated on their white owners, inducing them, at vast pecuniary sacrifices, to liberate them. What is that SOMETHING? Is there any mistaking it? I...
1858, the day after the last Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Alton. This re-enactment was held at the original site (west lawn of the Logan County Courthouse) on October 16, 2008 (the sesquicentennial anniversary of the rally)
Almost 100 years after Thomas Lincoln moved from Sinking Spring Farm, a log cabin originally accepted as the birthplace cabin of Abraham Lincoln was placed in the Memorial Building. While the cabin is old and typical to the area, it is not the original Lincoln cabin. The National Park Service...