Scope and Contents: There are numerous histories of the war, rosters of Ohio soldiers who served, memoirs, and photographic histories of the war. Related subjects such as reconstruction, slavery, and the presidency of Abraham Lincoln also are covered.
Some titles related to slavery include: The Anti-Slavery Record 1836; Twenty-Two Years a Slave by Austin Steward; Constitution of the New England Anti-Slavery Society; The African Slave Trade by Thomas Buxton; An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered before a Select Committee of the House of Commons in the Years 1790 and 1791 on the Part of the Petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave Trade; An Inquiry into the Character and Tendency of the American Colonization, and American Anti-Slavery Societies by William Jay; and Frances Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839.
Some titles related to Abraham Lincoln include: Lincoln Memorial. The Journeys of Abraham Lincoln: from Springfield to Washington, 1861, as President-Elect, and from Washington to Springfield, 1865, as President Martyred by William Coggeshall; Joseph Barrett's Life of Abraham Lincoln; and Charles Coffin's Abraham Lincoln.
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