Nance Legins-Costley was the first slave freed by Abraham Lincoln - in 1841, twenty years before the outbreak of the Civil War. Historian Carl Adams has written a dramatic true account of Nance's three trials for freedom, a story which also bolsters Lincoln's reputation as a long-standing enemy of slavery. Adams' book, Nance: Trials of […]

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