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Play Length: 75 Minutes
Summary:
Prelude to Civil War is fiction but with nearly half the dialogue being taken from the 1856-1858 period. Neither Abraham Lincoln nor Frederick Douglass ever came to Lecompton, K.T. and this cast of characters could never have assembled in the same room and all come out alive. The Lincoln material was taken from a May 29, 1856 speech delivered before the first Republican State Convention of Illinois. Even in opposing the Democratic Party which greatly favored the slavery-dependent South, Lincoln chose his fence-straddling words like a model mugwump politician. The peculiar institution of slavery in some way affected every man, woman, and child in the nation, and particularly savagely those in Kansas Territory.

Cast of Characters

Sara Robinson John Geary Dr. John Stringfellow         Dr. Charles Robinson Gen. James Lane Col. Henry Titus John Brown Sr.

Abraham Lincoln Berry Duncan Cecil Butler Chauncey Skinner Modena Jenkins Frederick Douglass Sergeant of Dragoons

Lecompton Reenactors

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