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Lincoln's Citadel: The Civil War in Washington, DC International & World Politics Wallis depicts a landscape andThe stirring history of a president and a capital city on the front lines of war and freedom. In the late 1840s, Representative Abraham Lincoln resided at Mrs. Spriggs boardinghouse on Capitol Hill. Known as Abolition House, Mrs. Spriggs hosted lively dinner table debates of antislavery politics by the congressional boarders. The unusually rapid turnover in the enslaved staff suggested that there were frequent escapes north to freedom from Abolition