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Lincoln reaches the age of twenty-one in fewer than 20 pages. Donald, Lincoln (New York, 1995). In Michael Burlingame’s 2,000-page Abraham Lincoln: A Life (2 vols.; Baltimore, 2008), his youth occupies fewer than 50 pages.

2. Marion B. Lucas, A History of Blacks in Kentucky, vol. 1: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760–1891 (Frankfort, Ky., 1992), xv–xx, 2–3; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese, Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders’ New World Order (New York, 2008), 7; Michael Burlingame, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln (Urbana, Ill., 1994), 21; Richard L. Miller, Lincoln and His World: The Early Years, Birth to Illinois Legislature (Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2006), 17–29. For the division between Lower South, Upper South, and Border South, see William W. Freehling, The Road to Disunion: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854–1861 (New York, 2007), 2–3.

3. Lowell H. Harrison, The Antislavery Movement in Kentucky (Lexington, Ky., 1978), 20–25; James F. Hopkins, ed., Papers of Henry Clay (10 vols.; Lexington, Ky., 1959–91), 1: 5–7; J. Blaine Hudson, “In Pursuit of Freedom: Slave Law and Emancipation in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky,” Filson History Quarterly, 76 (Summer 2002), 290–92; Kenneth J. Winkle, “‘Paradox Though it may Seem’: Lincoln on Antislavery, Race, and Union, 1837–1860,” in Brian Dirck, ed., Lincoln Emancipated: The President and the Politics of Race (DeKalb, Ill., 2007), 10.

4. Stephen Aron, How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay (Baltimore, 1996), 99–100; Monica Najar, “‘Meddling with Emancipation’: Baptists, Authority, and the Rift over Emancipation in the Upper South,” Journal of the Early Republic, 25 (Summer 2005), 157–87; Louis Warren, Lincoln’s Youth: Indiana Years (New York, 1959), 13; Miller, Lincoln and His World: Early Years, 27; Ronald C. White Jr., A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York, 2009), 18.

5. CW, 4: 62; Thomas Cooper, Some Information Respecting America (London, 1794), 25; Kenneth J. Winkle, The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln (Dallas, 2001), 11; Andrew R. L. Cayton, Frontier Indiana (Bloomington, Ind., 1996), 261–67.

6. Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron, “From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States, and the Peoples in Between in North American History,” American Historical Review, 104 (June 1999), 814–23; Nicole Etcheson, The Emerging Midwest: Upland Southerners and the Political Culture of the Old Northwest, 1787–1861 (Bloomington, Ind., 1996), 4–5; William N. Parker, “From Northwest to Midwest: Social Bases of a Regional History,” in David C. Klingaman and Richard K. Vedder, eds., Essays in Nineteenth Century Economic History: The Old Northwest (Athens, Ohio, 1975), 23; J. L. Balen to Justin S. Morrill, March 11, 1859, Justin S. Morrill Papers, LC.

7. James E. Davis, Frontier Illinois (Bloomington, Ind., 1998), 157; National Era, August 19, 1847; CW, 3: 135.

8. Richard Yates and Catherine Yates Pickering, Richard Yates: Civil War Governor (Danville, Ill., 1966), 107; John Mack Faragher, Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (New Haven, 1986), 46–48; Etcheson, Emerging Midwest, 67.

9. Cayton, Frontier Indiana, 189–90; John C. Hammond, Slavery, Freedom, and Expansion in the Early American West (Charlottesville, 2007), 97–103, 116–21.

10. Paul Simon, Lincoln’s Preparation for Greatness (Norman, Okla., 1965), 121; Paul Finkelman, “Evading the Ordinance: The Persistence of Bondage in Indiana and Illinois,” Journal of the Early Republic, 9 (Spring 1989), 35–48; Arvah E. Strickland, “The Illinois Background of Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and the Negro,” JISHS, 56 (Autumn 1963), 476.

11. Davis, Frontier Illinois, 167–68; Suzanne C. Guasco, “‘The Deadly Influence of Negro Capitalists’: Southern Yeomen and Resistance to the Expansion of Slavery in Illinois,” CWH, 47 (March 2001), 7–11; CW, 3: 455–57.

12. Paul M. Angle, ed., Prairie State: Impressions of Illinois, 1673–1967, by Travelers and Other Observers (Chicago, 1968), 81; N. Dwight Harris, The History of Negro Servitude