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What Was Lincoln's Approach To The Issue?

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McGovern notes that “Lincoln’s approach to the issue [slavery] started with his personal view, often expressed privately and sometimes publicly, that he abhorred slavery (66).” McGovern also notes that Lincoln’s own family had antislavery values (66). But in congress, his position on slavery was not always consisten with his own personal values. “He was never an abolitionist, because he firmly believed that slavery was constitutionally protected in states where it already existed (66).” But one must also bear in mind that Lincoln had not really preoccupied himself with the issue until he became more intimate with it through his work in politics, so with the change of situation came a change of perspective on the intricacies of the slavery
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