Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States.

Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States.

Lincoln’s adolescence was spent in Indiana. He later wrote that he had received less than a year’s schooling there—total. He was raised doing physical labor. He cleared trees for the family’s farm and was later employed to ferry flatboats of farm harvest down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Poor roads in the West made river access indispensable, as Armroyd’s navigational map shows. On these trips and others, Lincoln encountered large slave markets, as well as the vibrant Black culture in New Orleans.

Armroyd, George.

Photograph by Vincent Dilio. Courtesy of David M. Rubenstein.

1826

Armroyd, George. Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1826.

1809–1853 Early Years and Ambitions

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