Category: Feature

Illinois Legislature “The agitation of the slavery question was just beginning to create uneasiness among slaveholders and politicians”: View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Congress The first settlers of Illinois came predominantly from slave-holding states like Kentucky. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

1848 Campaign I am a Northern man, or rather a Western free state man, with a constituency I believe to be, and with personal feelings I know to be, against the extension of slavery. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

1854 When Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas introduced congressional legislation in January 1854 that became the Kansas-Nebraska Act, he inadvertently sowed the seeds of his own political demise. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

1856 In 1856, Mr. Lincoln was maneuvered into taking a leadership role by his law partner, William H. Herndon. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Speech at Peoria, October 16, 1854 If you hear me at all, I wish you to hear me thro’. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Fragment on Sectionalism, July 23, 1856 Do they really think by right surrendering to wrong, the hopes of our constitution, our Union, and our liberties, can possibly be bettered? View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 27, 1856 Fellow countrymen – Under the Constitution of the U.S. another Presidential contest approaches us. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Dred Scott The second major upheaval in Mr. Lincoln’s and the nation’s attitude toward slavery was the Supreme Court’s decision on the Dred Scott case. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom

Speech at Springfield, June 26, 1857 In the Dred Scott speech…Lincoln took what, for a Illinois politician seeking statewide support in 1857, must be regarded as a bold stand on the Declaration. View the feature in its entirety at: Mr. Lincoln and Freedom