Many people who heard Lincoln's speech were very impressed with him. I have heard this winter, all the big men in Congress talk on this question (referring to Nebraska), but Lincoln's is the strongest speech I have ever heard on the subject.? Richard Yates, Sr., one of the amazed people who heard the speech, said this. ... On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the National Hotel at 10:00 AM. ... That is why the American Flag played such an important role in capturing John Wilkes Booth. ...

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Frederick Douglass Born 1818 (?) in Tuckahoe, Maryland Died 1895 in Washington D.C. Frederick Douglass was the leading spokesman of African Americans in the 1800's. Never knowing his mother or even the identity of his father, he was born a slave and escaped to the north when he was twenty years...

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Introduction Many events of the 18th century impacted the abolition of Slavery. In the 1800's there were radical changes to the slave trade and North American slave holdings. In the U.S. movements were forming to stop the holding and trade of slaves. It first started in the United States when Ch...

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