In Tender Consideration Web graphics & design John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin

Brings together a unique group of scholars: Offering diverse perspectives

and screenings of the film Carnal Knowledge

from children's understanding of death and death as taboo to changes in learning and behaviour

Rooted in research and theory

In Tender Consideration Web graphics & design John Hope FranklinFrom debt to divorce, from adultery to slander, cases with women as plaintiffs, defendants, or both appeared regularly on docket books in antebellum Illinois. Nearly one fifth of Abraham Lincoln's cases involved women as litigants, and during the twenty five years of his legal career thousands of women appeared in Illinois courts, as litigants, criminal defendants, witnesses, and spectators. Drawing on the rich resources of The Law Practice of Abraham