<p><span class="deck">Packed like animals in the holds of slave ships, Negroes bound for America were prey to disease, brutal masters, and their own suicidal melancholy.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">Harriet Beecher Stowe, an extraordinary member of an extraordinary family, always claimed that God wrote</span> Uncle Tom’s Cabin</p>
<p><span class="deck"> PRESIDENT LINCOLN MOVES AT LAST<br />
Influence of “Advanced Republicans” Seen as Crucial to the Outcome<br />
THE UNION UNITED STILL<br />
THE PRESIDENT’S TACT & COURAGE<br />
HE WAITED ON THE PROPER HOUR<br />
JUBILATION AMONG THE BLACKS<br />
They Stand Ready to Defend With Arms the Rights Thus Gained<br />
NEW LIGHT SHED ON THE PARTICULARS OF THE GREAT DRAMA </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">While the American Revolution was still being fought, Mum Bett declared that the new nation’s principle of liberty must extend to her, too. It took 80 years and a far-more-terrible war to confirm the rights that she had demanded.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Boston is so bright a beacon of Revolutionary history that it is easy to forget that the city played an equally significant role in another civil war. Dara Horn, a Harvard junior, seeks out the moral engine of the Union cause.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Two hundred years after his birth, Americans still revere him as a martyr and loathe him as a fanatical murderer. What was he?</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Without the material support of a half-dozen prominent northerners known as the Secret Six, John Brown’s attack on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry 150 years ago may well have never occurred.</span></p>
<p>In what many consider the greatest anti-slavery oration ever given, Frederick Douglass called for “the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”</p>
