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Lincoln's Response To Abolish Slavery Essay

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Lincoln’s vision of abolishing slavery is seen in “The Radical And The Republican” as clear and concise. Lincoln had substantial beliefs regarding the abolishment of slavery, and claimed he “was conscientiously opposed to slavery all his life”. (42) He did not support the concept of bloodshed in exchange for the abolishment of slavery, although insisted “…the only point of the war was the restoration of the Union…but, convinced a large number of Americans that, to restore the Union, they needed to abolish slavery.” (136). Rather than expressing his passion for antislavery through uplifting a fight contra to the South, Lincoln took to politics to compromise popular support to restore the Union, and thereafter abolish slavery. Lincoln’s views concerning slavery juristically contradicted his overall beliefs regarding African Americans. “Lincoln claimed that the rights to life liberty and …show more content…

Lincoln’s views of slavery have previously been identified as strongly opposing, yet his beliefs on equality of African American’s is not as balanced. Douglass claimed “ We are one people… one in general complexion, one in a common degradation, one in popular estimation.”. (114) Douglass generally focused on fusing struggles contrary to slavery and racism, which was the influence he was trying to chafe on Lincoln. Lincoln’s opposing views of race go as follows. “ I will say then that I am not, nor have ever been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of white and black races…”, (122) by criticizing Lincoln and his views on slavery over racial equality, Douglass’s voice became noted, and began shaping Lincoln’s views. In order to calm the storm of the acrimony Democrats had towards Lincoln’s beliefs, Lincoln was compelled to agree with Democrats “… that blacks and whites are not equal…” (125) in order to halt questions of race impending towards

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