When I photographed a flag torn asunder it was just after the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's murder. The sight reminded of seven words from the Bible. "A house divided, against itself, cannot stand." Lincoln uttered those words on the effects of slavery during the summer of 1858 when he accepted the nomination as the Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois. In less than three years, the United States would be torn apart by succession. Division became not just a fear but a reality. It would take four years of bloodshed and destruction to bring the country back to together and end slavery...
