Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl
Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl (Dear Mr. President) Andrea Davis Pinkney,
Publisher: Winslow Press
ISBN: 1890817600
Edition: Hardcover; 2001-05-10
Summary:
The Dear Mr. President series brings history alive through fictitious
correspondence between a president and a young person. Although the
letters are all imagined, they are based upon meticulous historical
research. Elegantly designed in two colors, the books include
photographs, maps, primary source material, a presidential biography,
U.S. postal history, an index, and timelines. In this latest addition
to the series, the United States descends into Civil War, a
12-year-old slave on a South Carolina plantation begins corresponding
with the newly inaugurated President Lincoln. Full emancipation, the
president writes to her, cannot come easily in so deeply divided a
nation. But her continuing appeals prod the conscience of this
burdened man, and he drafts the Emancipation Proclamation that sets
Lettie on the road to freedom.
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