Abraham Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation Research Paper
STUDENT: PLATON OANA MADALINA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………… p.3
2. THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA……….. p.4
3. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION ……………………………………..p.7
"From a genuine abolition point of view, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull and indifferent, but measuring him by the sentiment of his country - a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to discuss - he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined." Frederick Douglass, 1876 source?
1. INTRODUCTION
He survived the tragedy and depression to become America 's Greatest President. He had the courage to destroy slavery, but he took a Civil War and the loss of 600,000 lives; his beliefs cost him his life, but without him the United States of America would not exist today. Abraham Lincoln, America 's model hero, was a man whose courage saved the nation from destruction. His early life was poor and brutal; he was born on the 12th of February 1809 in a one room cabin in rural Kentucky, a frontier state of America. His family were farmers, he was the first of his family to read; Abraham Lincoln was different to from his friends. The young Lincoln was a child of induce curiosity, he loved to hear people, gave well crafted, well delivered speeches. He would often go to places where such speeches were being made; he memorized parts of them and he would come back and give those speeches to his playmates. It was in Lincoln 's nature to embrace new experiences and when he was nineteen he had the opportunity to travel 1200 miles down the Mississippi river. It was a journey that will change his outlook of life forever. He was confronted with the realities of slavery; what he did see was probably the most horrific aspect of slavery and that was the destruction of slave families, the selling of slaves and the use of slaves literally as pieces
SA I
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………………… p.3
2. THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA……….. p.4
3. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION ……………………………………..p.7
"From a genuine abolition point of view, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull and indifferent, but measuring him by the sentiment of his country - a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to discuss - he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined." Frederick Douglass, 1876 source?
1. INTRODUCTION
He survived the tragedy and depression to become America 's Greatest President. He had the courage to destroy slavery, but he took a Civil War and the loss of 600,000 lives; his beliefs cost him his life, but without him the United States of America would not exist today. Abraham Lincoln, America 's model hero, was a man whose courage saved the nation from destruction. His early life was poor and brutal; he was born on the 12th of February 1809 in a one room cabin in rural Kentucky, a frontier state of America. His family were farmers, he was the first of his family to read; Abraham Lincoln was different to from his friends. The young Lincoln was a child of induce curiosity, he loved to hear people, gave well crafted, well delivered speeches. He would often go to places where such speeches were being made; he memorized parts of them and he would come back and give those speeches to his playmates. It was in Lincoln 's nature to embrace new experiences and when he was nineteen he had the opportunity to travel 1200 miles down the Mississippi river. It was a journey that will change his outlook of life forever. He was confronted with the realities of slavery; what he did see was probably the most horrific aspect of slavery and that was the destruction of slave families, the selling of slaves and the use of slaves literally as pieces
Bibliography: M. McPherson, James. How President Lincoln Decided to Issue the Emancipation Proclamation. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, No. 37 (Autumn, 2002) The Avalon Project [7] M. McPherson, op. cit. , p.108 [8] Harold Holzer,Sara Vaughn Gabbard,Lincoln Museum (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Lincoln and freedom: slavery, emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment, Southern Illinois University, 2007, p [9] The Avalon Project. “The Second Inaugural Address: Abraham Lincoln, 1865”. The Yale Law School Project, http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/inaug/lincoln2.htm [10] IBIDEM