. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery . TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE LINCOLN ANCESTRY. PAGtt Condition of the People at the End of the War for Independence—! Migrations of the Earlier Lincolns—A Tragedy in the WildernessAbraham Lincolns Parents in Kentucky—Birth of the Future Presi-dent—The Old Kentucky Home—Another Migration—A GreatDisaster in Indiana ......... I CHAPTER II. THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN. The Lincoln Home in Indiana—Hard Times—The Boy of the Back-woods—Log-Cabin Building—Abraham Lincolns First Letter—The Funeral in the Wilderness—The Boys First Book . .12 CHAPT
. Abraham Lincoln and the downfall of American slavery . TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE LINCOLN ANCESTRY. PAGtt Condition of the People at the End of the War for Independence—! Migrations of the Earlier Lincolns—A Tragedy in the WildernessAbraham Lincolns Parents in Kentucky—Birth of the Future Presi-dent—The Old Kentucky Home—Another Migration—A GreatDisaster in Indiana ......... I CHAPTER II. THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN. The Lincoln Home in Indiana—Hard Times—The Boy of the Back-woods—Log-Cabin Building—Abraham Lincolns First Letter—The Funeral in the Wilderness—The Boys First Book . .12 CHAPTER III. YOUNG MANHOOD. Thomas Lincolns Second Marriage—Improvements in the BackwoodsHome—More Books for the Boy—His Horizon Enlarges—HeLearns to be Thorough—Down the Mississippi—A Glimpse ofSlavery—Coming out of the Wilderness . . .27 CHAPTER IV. THE LINCOLNS IN ILLINOIS. The Land of Full-Grown Men—Lincoln Attains His Majority—Strik-ing out for Himself—Another River Voyage—An Odd Introduc-tion to New Sa
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