America's Journey Through Slavery: Abraham Lincoln - The Great Emancipator on AllMovie

Intended for classroom use by history teachers and designed to conform to national and state curricula standards, the documentary series America's Journey Through Slavery uses such elements as graphics, maps, and age-specific scripts to provide a systematic historical overview of slavery in the United States. It is designed to help students conceptually grasp the European rationale for transporting African slaves to the United States, as well as the manner in which slavery reshaped U.S. life in the Nineteenth Century. This particular volume, Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator, traces the life of Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States - from his boyhood in Kentucky, through his presidential term, his opposition to slavery, his efforts to hold the country together during the Civil War, and finally, his tragic death in 1865 at the hands of John Wilkes Booth.