Category: History Publisher: Hastings House
ISBN-10: 0803893752
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 260
Copyright: March 1, 1995
An oral history by Mariah Vance, the Lincolns' black housekeeper in their home in Springfield, Ill. from 1850 to 1860. She is the first person to tell of their homelife. The Lincolns were a typical dysfunctional American family, circa 1850s.
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"The most important book on Lincoln in a century" -- William Pederson, prof., Louisiana State University. "(Lincoln scholars) might hail it as the greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls."
This is the story of the author’s great great grandparents, Edward Lewis and Sarah Crosby, who were convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. It is told from the perspective of a detective agency searching for what happened to Edward, w
