{"product_id":"lincolns-citadel-the-civil-war-in-washington-d-c","title":"Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, D.C.","description":"xvi, 486 pp. In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Sprigg's boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Sprigg's hosted lively dinner-table debates of antislavery politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually rapid turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were frequent escapes north to freedom from Abolition House, likely a cog in the underground railroad. These early years in Washington proved formative for Lincoln. In 1861, now in the White House, Lincoln could gaze out his office window and see the Confederate flag flying across the Potomac. Washington, DC, sat on the front lines of the Civil War. Vulnerable and insecure, the capital was rife with Confederate sympathizers. On the crossroads of slavery and freedom, the city was a refuge for thousands of contraband and fugitive slaves. The Lincoln administration took strict measures to tighten security and established camps to provide food, shelter, and medical care for contrabands. In 1863, a Freedman's Village rose on the grounds of the Lee estate, where the Confederate flag once flew.","brand":"W.W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40704919568454,"sku":"2337656","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2337656.jpg?v=1695238013","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/lincolns-citadel-the-civil-war-in-washington-d-c","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}