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Preface and Chapter 1

• In the Preface, the author expresses his intention with this book to show the reader Lincoln's growing and changing opinions of slavery throughout his life.

• Chapter 1 shows that Lincoln was born in Kentucky in 1809; when Lincoln was seven, his family moved to southwestern Indiana, where he would live until he was twenty-one.

• Slavery was legal in Kentucky but had been prohibited in Indiana and Illinois since 1787, due to the Northwestern Ordinance.

• There are well documented trips Lincoln made down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in both 1828 and 1831, during which he saw and commented on slaves.
• In the late 1700s and early 1800s, slavery ended in many countries around the world including Great Britain, although it continued to exist in smaller territories.

• In the United States, most of the northern states outlawed slavery in their own states, although some of them limited this abolition of slavery...

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