The Gettysburg Address: President Abraham Lincoln
When we generally think of President Abraham Lincoln personally, the people of The United States of American, only recognize the unmissable facts that we see of him on an everyday basis. Naturally, we know that President Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, as we were educated about this in grade school. We also know that his picture is the face of the five-dollar bill in company with the Lincoln Memorial on the backside, or even the allegory about his dentures being made of wood. We still fail to realize President Lincoln for all that he has done for this country. President Lincoln was a very admirable man known for his aim for equality among all the human race, his passing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which in 1863 freed all slaves within the Confederacy. The Gettysburg Address is also a critical part of our history, written by President Abraham Lincoln, as an alleviating message for the American people.
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With this being said, who's Lincoln's larger audience? Well, we could agree that Lincoln aimed his speech toward slaves who fought alongside white men, families of the bold men who lost their lives at the time of the war, and all of the staying soldiers who were getting ready to go back to war after burying family and friends. This speech could've also been aimed toward both sides of the war as an arms agreement to get them to become aware that more blood will be shed and bodies will be buried if they were to carry on to go to war, which would most likely be the reason this speech was given at the cemetery. Although President Lincoln was not the keynote speaker, he felt as if it would be