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Lincoln in New Orleans: The 1828-1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History
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In 1828, a teenaged Abraham Lincoln guided a flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The adventure marked his first visit to a major city and exposed him to the nation's largest slave marketplace. It also nearly cost him his life, in a nighttime attack in the Louisiana plantation country. That trip, and a second one in 1831, would form
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Release dateFeb 18, 2014
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