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Abraham Lincoln: A Life Of A Slave

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Abraham “Abe” Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky on February 12, 1809 to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. Lincoln was born and raised in his parent’s one bedroom cabin on their farm in Sinking Spring, Kentucky (now known as Hodgenville, Kentucky). Lincoln’s father who lacked a proper education was a great farmer and carpenter and frequently served as a jury member. His parents joined a Baptist church in the area that had later split apart due to slavery. When Lincoln was two his family moved to a nearby farm known as Knob Creek Farm. His father had complications with obtaining a title for the farm so they had to relocate to Pigeon Creek, Indiana. Lincoln helped his father build a cabin there. Two years later Lincoln’s mother died from “milk …show more content…

He was paid eight dollars a month for this job. That job showed him that it was more to life than the Indiana frontier and it also shaped his views on slavery as he witnessed the auctions and treatments of slaves. In 1830 Lincoln’s father relocated the entire family to Illinois after he had a fear that there was another milk sickness outbreak. After a rough winter Lincoln left his father’s farm and set out on his own adventure. Lincoln got a job steering a flatboat from Illinois to New Orleans, Louisiana. While leading construction with two other boys Lincoln received recognition from the residents of New Salem where he learned by drilling a hole in the boat he was able to float the stuck of the boat over Rutledge’s dam. While walking home from St. Louis an owner of a flatboat was fascinated with Lincoln and hired him as a clerk in his New Salem store. While in New Salem Lincoln made a great deal of friends, enhanced his grammar. He was known as the “master story-teller”. In August 1982 he decided to become a candidate for one of the four representatives in Sangamon County in the Illinois Legislature. Lincoln had only been a resident for nine …show more content…

John Wilkes Booth who was a confederate sympathizer originally planned to kidnap the president. He decided to kill Lincoln when he seen how much Lincoln supported the former slaves. On April 14, 1865 booth attended Our American Cousin at the Ford’s theater and waited for the perfect opportunity to assassinate the president in the president’s box. When booth assassinated Lincoln in the back of the head, Lincoln fell over and his wife Mary Lincoln caught him. When booth tried to escape his boot caught on to something and broke his leg. While he was limping out of the theater Booth shouted out “Sic Semper Tyrannis” which means “Thus Always to Tyrants” in Latin. That phrase is the motto of the state for

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