Why did a nation founded on ideals of freedom and equality tolerate for so long one of the harshest labor systems the world has known?
A new traveling exhibition open at the Boyle County Public Library looks for answers to this question by tracing Abraham Lincoln’s gradual transformation from an antislavery moderate into “The Great Emancipator,” who freed all slaves with a revolutionary war-time proclamation in 1863.
“Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation” will be on display at the library until January 23, 2009.
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