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Printed and bound in the United States of America. First printing 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN: 978-1-4222-3885-1 Series ISBN: 978-1-4222-3881-3 ebook ISBN: 978-1-4222-7895-6 ebook series ISBN: 978-1-4222-7891-8 Produced by Regency House Publishing Limited The Manor House

PAGE 2: General Ulysses S. Grant. PAGE 3: President Abraham Lincoln visiting Union army troops at City Point, Virginia, 1865 Lithograph from a painting by Gustav Bartsch. RIGHT: Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), African American abolitionist, writer, and statesman. PAGE 6: African American “contrabands” (escaped slaves), at Foller's house, Cumberland Landing, Virginia.

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