When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation (Lisa Waller Rogers - BH) Section-Letters/memoirs Overwhelmed with shock and fear

Overwhelmed with shock and fear

“Roe” Reisinger of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry

Release date: June 1

This interesting memoir describes one man's journey through the American Civil War

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When People Were Things: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, and the Emancipation Proclamation (Lisa Waller Rogers - BH) Section-Letters/memoirs Overwhelmed with shock and fearDuring 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