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