When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation (Lisa Waller Rogers - BH) ghosts President Ulysses S

President Ulysses S

superbly written with a “you-are-there” sense that will linger with you long after you finish the book

The Nameless and the Faceless Women of the Civil War is about those unrecognized women of that era

illustrates the contrasting forces of “manliness” and domesticity during this time period

enclosing the spaces where residents once hovered

When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation (Lisa Waller Rogers - BH) ghosts President Ulysses SDuring the three decades before the American Civil War, Southern slaveholders tried to end the anti slavery movement. They exerted their influence by censoring the press and the mail, attacking and killing abolitionists, burning buildings, drafting frightening new laws and repealing others, and terrorizing and abducting Northern free Blacks. Northerners began to realize that the Slave Power would not rest until slavery was allowed to plant itself all