Abraham Lincoln Second Inaugural Address Summary

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"Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address March 4, 1865" Realistically, the goals of reconstruction was not very reachable all at once. Lincoln basically expected to have all slavery abolished right away as soon as the Civil War ended and to never go back; plantation owners spent their whole lives bossing around African-American slaves and keeping their businesses running smoothly and efficiently. Getting rid of slaves in such a short amount of time and not just slowly letting them all go bit by bit would ruin the master's plans and livelihoods. Without slaves Southerners would lose a lot of annual profit and their way of living would shatter into 1 million pieces. Lincoln seem to be expecting way too much of the Southerners

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