a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years. Fremont, known as the ‘Pathfinder’ for his explorations of the West, was appointed by Lincoln as the commander of the Union’s Department of ...
Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no role to play in the country except in protecting property,
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