[Homer_J_Simpson]

New Month, new thread. May is more eventful than those earlier in the year. I will continue with the Chicopee Mass. Weekly Journal and excerpts from the authors named above. Feel free to add items from other sources.

Link to April thread.

[henkster]

In preparation of our “We The People” national competition, I read “Arguing About Slavery” by William Lee Miller, “Who Freed the Slaves” by Leonard Richards and “Lincoln and the 13th Amendment” by Christian Samito. I learned a whole lot more about the political dimensions of the abolition movement than I ever knew. We had an Emancipation Proclamation/13th Amendment question, so it was sort of important to catch up on this.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Chicopee Mass Weekly Journal source

The Chicopee, Mass. Weekly Journal
May 3, 1856

To the People of Massachusetts – 2
Political – 2
Massacre of Americans at Panama – 2
Chicopee News – 2

Link to Chicopee Weekly Journal

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from April 22 (reply #26).

Nicole Etcheson, "Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era"

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Today we celebrate the crash of the steamboat Effie Afton, as described by Carl Sandburg, and the aftermath. Abraham Lincoln had put aside his political interests to work at his regular day job.

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Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume II

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from February 22 (reply #27)

David Herbert Donald, Lincoln