“Slavery was the cause… [O]ur success was to be his freedom.”

— William T. Sherman

Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman https://books.google.com/books?id=cwVkgrvctCcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Eric+Foner%22+%22Republicans%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiOwdup3aLLAhVK7SYKHZufDmUQ6AEIRjAH#v=onepage&q=%22Eric%20Foner%22%20%22Republicans%22&f=false (1891), New York, pp. 2:180–81
1890s, 1891

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American General, businessman, educator, and author. 1820–1891

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