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Very much like an asset, rather than a human being, or son. It was Thomas Lincoln's (Abraham Lincoln's father) debt to a neighbor, which Thomas repaid with labor, working the neighbor's farm. He did this by "loaning" out his son's labor, Abraham to the neighbor, to pay off his debt. Abraham was not paid anything, he simply "worked" off his father's debt, with his sweat and hard work. Lincoln later compared this experience to that of what a slave might have experienced.

Abraham Lincoln did not visit his ailing father; upon being informed of his father's declining health, Lincoln refused to visit him and asked his stepbrother to "Say to him that if we could meet now, it is doubtful whether it would not be more painful than pleasant." Thomas Lincoln died 5 days later.

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