Down the River(1918)
Abraham Lincoln travels to New Orleans in an unsuccessful attempt to reunite a Negro boy with his mother who was kidnapped in Illinois and sold into slavery.
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Abraham Lincoln travels to New Orleans in an unsuccessful attempt to reunite a Negro boy with his mother who was kidnapped in Illinois and sold into slavery.
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1918-04-01
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