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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
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Slave owners and white racists were afraid that the world they had always known was slipping away from them. Fear was a great motivator—fear of change, fear of losing power, fear of being told that they were wrong. The roots of white ...more
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