After a great deal of bloody fighting and an increasing dissatisfaction in the North which is required to send troops to fight the rebellious slaves , the blacks succeed in emancipating themselves and create a republic in the Deep South , led by Tubman and Frederick Douglass . ( Brown himself did not survive to see the victory of what he started . ) Abraham Lincoln - a Whig politician who never got to be President - tries to start a war to bring back the secessionist black states into the Union , but he fails and is himself killed in that war . Blacks remember him as their archenemy
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Fire on the Mountain (Bisson novel)