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After a farmer floated his raft downstream to new orleans how did he get home

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The 1828-1831 Flatboat Voyages and Their Place in History.
by Richard Campanella. In 1828, a teenaged Abraham Lincoln guided a flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The adventure marked his first visit to a major city and exposed him to the nation's largest slave marketplace.
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