Download or read book If You Please, President Lincoln! written by Harriette Gillem Robinet and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because the Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in the border states, Moses, a Maryland slave boy of about 14, ran away. Tricked into being part of a scheme to send freed slaves to Haiti, Moses was among more than 400 slaves who endured hunger and disease before eventually being rescued. Based on a true incident.