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Abraham Lincoln: growing up

on February 12, 1809 a cold winter wind blew through the bare trees near Greenville, Kentucky. Smoke rose from the chimney of a little log cabin, Thomas Lincoln had built a big fire in the fireplace to keep the cabin warm. a baby was about to be born, suddenly, a tiny city was heard,  Nancy Lincoln held her new son in her arms. his name was Abraham Lincoln. Abraham, his mother father and sister Sarah lived in the little cabin until Abraham was two years old. then they moved, Thomas Lincoln wanted farmed land where he could grow better crops of corn. He found it near a place called Knob creek, Kentucky. at knob Creek young Abraham  helped playing in the woods. he caught sunfish in the creek, for a little while he went to school with other children who lived nearby. but often there was no teacher, then there was no school for the children.some people said that Thomas Lincoln was not really the owner of the knob Creek farm. Thomas was afraid his land would be taken from him. also many farmers in Kentucky owned slaves. Thomas thought slavery was wrong, and he did not want his family to live where slavery was practiced. when Abraham was seven years old, Thomas moved the family to Indiana. the land in Indiana was covered with forest. trees, vines and bushes grew so close together that Thomas has to cut a path for his family to walk their new home. in Indiana, Abraham learned how to swing an ace. honest Abe

the summer that Abe was nineteen, he got a job taking a flatboat of supplies down the Mississippi river to new Orleans. a flatboat was a big raft that was moved along by the current of the river, sometimes it got stuck and Abe had to push it along with a pole. day after day, Abe watched the muddy Mississippi roll by as the flatboat drifted father south, he had never been so far from home. many while people in the southern states Owens slave, while hew was on his trip, Abe saw slaves working in cotton fields. he saw a place where salves were bought and sold. he kept thinking about how wrong slavery was,  one person should not be allowed to buy another person. no person should be forced to work for another without being paid. when the journey was over, Abe returned home, but he never forgot what he had seen.  slaves being sold at auction, by the early 1800s, about a  third of the people living  in the south were slaves.