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Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all [people], in all lands, everywhere. |
Christopher Small, portraying Abraham Lincoln in a web series for Abe's America
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"I'm Christopher Small and this is Abe's America." Join Chris and Abe as they travel on the web series: "Abe's America" and "Ask Abe."
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War in Heaven, War on Earth: The Birth of the Seventh-day Adventist Church During the American Civil War will soon be available again in a digital online version. Stream the fascinating full-length (115 min) documentary film. A nation spilts apart while a church struggles to come together. As Abraham Lincoln presides over a Civil War engulfing America, issues of faith, freedom, and duty to country clash as conflict threatens to divide both nation and the fledgling Adventist movement. |
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Lincoln & Emancipation Expansion of slavery is the explosive issue that draws Springfield lawyer Abraham Lincoln back into the political scene. Our founding fathers, he claims, sought to contain slavery so it would die out. But now, in the 1850s, it appears that slavery may overrun the entire country. "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel." |
After his debates with Stephen Douglas make Abraham Lincoln's name nationally known, he is sent to Washington D.C. as the sixteenth President of the United States, whose unity is already unraveling with secession. Finally Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation and urges passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
Liberty has come, but at what price?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN & EMANCIPATION features Chris Small in a dramatic narrative which explores Lincoln's own words regarding slavery and freedom. Bonus discussion with the performer provides additional insights. This is an expanded film version of a live program Chris offered around the Lincoln Centennial and still performs for audiences today through Abe's America LLC.
Liberty has come, but at what price?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN & EMANCIPATION features Chris Small in a dramatic narrative which explores Lincoln's own words regarding slavery and freedom. Bonus discussion with the performer provides additional insights. This is an expanded film version of a live program Chris offered around the Lincoln Centennial and still performs for audiences today through Abe's America LLC.
"Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We . . . will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We -- even we here -- hold the power, and bear the responsibility. . . . We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress, December 1, 1862