Abraham Lincoln, called the Great Liberator, is traced through places associated with his life from his birth on a Kentucky farm to his boyhood in Indiana, his long years at his home, and his assassination at Ford's Theater. Frederick Douglass said Lincoln's great mission was to save the country from dismemberment and ruin and to free it from slavery, and Lincoln accomplished both by leading the nation through the Civil War and signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, said, "Now he belongs to the ages," and Martin Luther King, Jr. said that the spirit of Lincoln still lives.
