This was a hard book to read due to subject matter centering upon slavery, abolitionists, and politics.I'm not sure the beginning was the perfect way to start because it was very heavy emotionally to process but the mid to latter part did get easier.
It starts with Lucy Battelle as a slave whose master was Ezekiel Goshorn. Upon being captured, she escaped during a riot, and ran off.
The slaves sadly had no rights, no freedoms, they were treated inhumanely upon fleeing using the Underground Railroad.
The story progresses to the abolitionists and the trials of that century.
"If he frees the slaves everyone around here will be ruined."
"Did you break up families?"
"Abraham Lincoln spoke about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. Though he did not think free state residents should be compelled to assist in returning runaway slaves, he did not think the law was unconstitutional, nor should it go unenforced. He understood that it was part of the compromise that kept the Union together." He also attempted to bring in Kansas to the Union as a slave state& praised Dred Scott decision.
It was later noted that Ezekiel the slave master was attacked during the riot.
Which it was during this same time that Mrs. Foster who was later found NOT GUILTY told others at those riots to go & do something inciting such hostility.
She was found not guilty on the charges against her pertaining to Section 1 of the Compromise of 1850.
(Us. V Abby Kelley Foster in Southern District of Illinois Case Number 392.)
The book then got into the Union aspect and his Presidency run during the Nov. 6 1860 Election Day fiasco.
President Lincoln did win that majority especially in Pa and Indiana but this author twisted the facts and made it appear as though he didn't creating a different perspective.
If after Feb. 13th, not enough of 152 votes is reached, then House moves to contingent election.
House choose winner using top 3 electoral among vote getters.
"The union is perpetual."
"No state may leave without the consent of the others."
Lincoln was a self made politician with little education. He was known as a Hick from Kentucky.
The President actually won the popular vote with 39.9% while security majority of electoral (180 of 303).
The majority popular vote was won with 1.9 million to seal his seat.
However, sadly he was killed in the Ford Theatre in DC on 4-14-1865 at a young age of fifty six years of age.
This was an interesting and uniquely appealing read that I hope you enjoy!
I would be remiss not to thank Charles, the pub, NetGalley, and Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.
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