Lincoln on Slavery

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The paper discusses how Abraham Lincoln was deeply troubled by the existence of slavery in the United States, especially after Stephen Douglas managed to have the Kansas-Nebraska Act made into the law of the land. The paper looks at how Lincoln's attitudes toward slavery eventually changed society and finally brought an end to slavery in America in 1862.

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"In 1854, forty-five year-old Abraham Lincoln was at a point in his life where politics was beginning to lose its luster, due in part to the recent passage by the U.S. Congress of the Kansas-Nebraska Act which "opened lands previously closed to slavery" and held the potential to help spread slavery into states where it was banned. For Lincoln, the passage of this highly-controversial act was immoral. Although Lincoln was not an abolitionist and held the view that slavery was "unassailably protected by the Constitution in states where it already existed," he did hold the opinion that the Founding Fathers had conveniently "put slavery on the way to ultimate extinction" by not allowing it to spread to new territories or states."

Sample of Sources Used:

• "Abraham Lincoln." 2007. Internet. Retrieved from http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/alincoln.html.
• Coolidge, Olivia E. The Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln. New York: Scribner'sBook Company, 1986.
• Shorto, Russell. Abraham Lincoln and the End of Slavery. New York: Millbrook Press,1991.

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