Abraham Lincoln And Racism

Abstract

As we know that everyone has human right to live, it ruled by norm that exists almost everywhere in this world. Human right is something universal, because everyone is born with and possesses the same rights, regardless of where they live, their gender or race, or their religious, cultural or ethnic background. America as a big country thus applied a kind of deviation human right around 19th century when it still stands with two big states, northern and southern.

Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races

He was the 16th president of US. In his way to be a president, he has been campaign many things about the equality of human rights that still being deviate by the cities in slave states. Abraham Lincoln was a figure with a good reputation and regarded as the savior of slavery in his era. Around 1861-1865 a civil war happened in US, the purpose of northern states that wanted to free the slaves rises a big problem to southern states. A war then held, about 4 years many effort has been did by Abraham Lincoln. Start from his strategy to make an amendment about the equality of human right without any exemption its self. Abraham Lincolnwas portrayed to a worshipping public as a self-made man, the liberator of the slaves, and the savior of the Union who had given his life so that others could be free. Inside his precious name that known so good in everyone’s ears, there’re so much rejected goes to him about his movement to save the human right of slaves, he even died in his journey to make his country become a unity without any separation anymore. In 1858 a debate between Lincoln and Douglas successfully attract the cities attention. In his campaign, Lincoln fully against the slavery, he regarded it as one of the human right deviation. “Let us discard all this quibbling about [this] race and that race and the other race being inferior… Let us discard all these things and unite as one

Because in his hard 4 years fight, he didn’t give up, he has been run his vision until he got his goal. Although he passed away before the civil war ended, but still, he also died in his efforts to make his destination achieve. By reading many explanation above, we will know that Lincoln also has a big power as a leader, after so many movement which was did by slave states, Lincoln never give up, he always prepare a new strategy to win all of those kind of wars. In his era, Lincoln by many aspects also lured the attention of many peoples, he success to nail many supporter to back him