The Gettysburg address was one of the most important speeches ever written and spoken in the United States of America. Written November 19, 1863, It was 272 words, 10 minutes, and took 2 minutes to be spoken. The writer of this speech, Abraham Lincoln, was an abolitionist; one who opposed slavery and mistreatment. Abraham Lincoln believed believed in the overall freedom and liberty for all people. The purpose of writing the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln was to dedicate a plot of land that would become Soldier’s National Cemetery to honour the fallen. Even then, the civil war was still raging and Lincoln still had to convince people to keep fighting. Writing the gettysburg address, Abraham thought “Four score and seven years” sounded