Abraham Lincoln

Francis Baily was a novelist and one-time editor of Royal Magazine. It was in the context of the magazine that they met, as ME was one of its contributors. Baily was the author from...

ST 's vocation brought her into contact with many eminent people, from Abraham Lincoln downwards. She shared a platform with Frederick Douglass on a famous occasion when she challenged his faith by demanding whether God...

HBS is remembered above all as having contributed substantially with Uncle Tom's Cabin to the build-up of anti-slavery feeling in the North before the Civil War. The sense of her influence is encapsulated in the...

Initially The Battle Hymn of the Republic was only somewhat praised. However, the patriotic feelings of Howe's countrymen and women of the North, who rallied in response to the devastating losses suffered by...

According to her daughter Agnes, who accompanied her to the polling station, ABB was beckoned to the front of a long line of voters when she arrived. She disclosed that she voted for the...

Even the original text of the Narrative of Sojourner Truth is told in the third person, not the first, and uses the standard white, middle-class, abolitionist diction of sentiment. There is little sense of ST

In another story for the same periodical, How June Found Massa Linkum, a slave child who has never heard of Christianity dies and is welcomed to heaven by both Jesus and President Lincoln (contradicting...

Time ticks on for J. T. Malone and for history. The civil rights struggle comes to Milan and violence ensues. Sherman, after carrying out one or two ineffectual gestures, and betraying his friendship with Jester...

The publication of the journal followed shortly after Pierce Butler's financial collapse and a forced sale of half of his 900 slaves (on 2-3 March 1859). Reporter Mortimer Thomson 's description of this sale was...

Having for years made portraits or sketches of historical figures a vital part of her writing about place or history, JM produced several more books about individuals: Fisher's Face, 1995 (about the remarkably handsome...