Lincoln stayed at my ancestor’s plantation and gave my ancestor a special dispensation to use use slaves in Illinois, rented from Kentucky slave owners, for the purpose of mining salt to provide the Union Army.
The rub is, he would allow the rented slaves to escape, making his business a little part of the underground railroad, but that part of the story has been overlooked by modern day historians. It is so much easier for lazy history writers to portray him as a slave-owner (user) and therefore a villian, despite the facts to the contrary.
“Lincoln stayed at my ancestor’s plantation and gave my ancestor a special dispensation to use use slaves in Illinois, rented from Kentucky slave owners, for the purpose of mining salt to provide the Union Army.”
Lincoln and my ancestors lived in Spencer County Indiana, when they from childhood to early adulthood.
My ancestor (g,g,g g uncle) later wrote that Abe wasn’t that good a shot.
Wrote it in “The Journal of Priddy Meeks” 1795 - 1886
The Lincoln movie was excellent.