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Abraham Lincoln, as most people know, was anti-slavery and was always in favor of the abolition of slavery. In the Peoria Speech on October 16th, 1854, throughout his speeches, he mentioned that slavery was wrong and should be eliminated. Many reasons made Lincoln into an abolitionist. He believed it was injustice in society, making other countries doubt the sincerity of America and criticizing us as hypocrites. He also felt it diminshed the integrity of the Declaration of Independence. Although he didn’t point out that in the South slavery was part of everyday life , he very well could of have accepted slavery himself had slavery been an integral part of everday life in the North as it was in the South. Some slaves who were freed from the South moved to the North, while some Northerners moved to the South, and became slave masters. …show more content…

Lincoln would of freed all slaves himself if had the ability at that time. As it turned out, Lincoln had plans; he planned to free all slaves, and allow them to stay at their own free will as an employee with a paid wage or allow them to leave and live with the same equal rights as white people. Lincoln knew that a large percentage of the white southern population wouldn’t agree to an end to slavery and an larger percentage of white people the country wouldn't agree to equality. Emphasizing on the Southerners’ responsibility to put an end to slavery, he could give them the power to reclaim fugitives as slaves, but did not allow them to commit a free man into

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“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.” “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.” (Abraham Lincoln, August in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln) Abraham Lincoln was more focused on unifying the states than abolishing slavery. Furthermore, “In YOUR hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in MINE, is the momentous issue of civil

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Abraham Lincoln did not believe that slavery should be abolished as soon as possible; he rather believed that slavery should be restricted and no longer extend to other states (or territories) in the Union that don’t already have slavery. This specific belief made him a free-soiler; he was not an abolitionist. He also believed that the very mention of spreading slavery was the reason for the conflicts within the Union in the first place; at the Jonesboro Joint Debate, he replied to his opponent then-senator Stephen Douglas that “we have generally had comparative peace upon the slavery question” until it was “excited by the effort to spread it into new territory” (7). He later goes on to blaming violent conflicts like the Mexican War on the question of spreading slavery: He says that “Whenever there has been an effort to spread it there has been agitation and resistance” (7).

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In the summer of 1862, Lincoln said himself, “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.” However this was before he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The same summer he said this, the border states had rejected compensated emancipation. This was when he realized that the emancipation of slaves was important. He stressed that emancipation would “strike at the heart of the rebellion.’’

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The Constitution authorized slavery so Lincoln left this alone and did not technically try to change that (Pruitt). Although, Lincoln did make the first steps to ending slavery, and that was one of the best things our country did. Slaves were treated as though their only life purpose was to help their owners. It was very “degrading.” The owners physically forced the slaves to work and if they did not, they were threated or beaten (Hamner).

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He stated that “If I could free no slave and preserve the union I would, if I could free some slave and preserve the union I would, and if I could free all slave and preserve the union I would”. During the war Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which states that if a slave were to escape from the South then they would be free. He did this with the right intention but he did not think of what the slave owners would do to prevent this from happening. As many of the slave did make it to the North most joined the fight to end slavery in the

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