"Free at Last : A History of the Abolition of Slavery in America"

Cohen Library Atrium, March 2000

National Touring Exhibition Developed by the Gilder Lehram Institute of American
History that traces the debate over slavery in the U.S. from the framing of the
Constitution to the Civil War.

Exhibition materials are drawn in
large part from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, on
deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.

The exhibition presents
letters, documents, cartoons, photographs and
broadsides from the Gilder Lehrman Collection,
previously unavailable to the public nationally. Among
the highlights are: an early fragment of the "House
Divided" speech written by Abraham Lincoln; and
letters by leading abolitionists, slaves, and soldiers
who fought in the Civil War.

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