If You Please, President Lincoln | Overview
Published by Atheneum in 1995, this historical fiction novel occurs in the mid- 1800s when Abraham Lincoln and America began implementing the Emancipation Proclamation which gave slaves in states that seceded from the Union their freedom upon victory by Northern forces. However, in states that remained within the Union, slavery was still permitted.
Robinet portrays Moses as a fourteen-year-old slave who lives in Maryland on the eastern shore of the Potomac River. Living in a state exempt from the early promises of the Emancipation Proclamation, Moses must run away from his...
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