Douglass, a slave who was spared no brutality, once fought an especially cruel master and eventually escaped north to freedom. McPherson, The Hammer and the Anvil reveals that its protagonists each wrestled with the question of slavery from a young age. With a foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian James M. In The Hammer and the Anvil, the award-winning author Dwight Jon Zimmerman and the renowned artist Wayne Vansant vividly depict the tumultuous time through the lives of two men who defined it: Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Congress divided itself between Northerners and Southerners, citizens on the frontier took up arms against one another, and movements for secession and abolition were more urgent than ever. The period leading up to the Civil War was one of great change.
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