I don’t think Lincoln much of a “great emancipator” like everyone said he was. He suggested that they should do away with slavery, which was part of his agenda. This idea would cause him to win against anyone. His true thoughts on slavery wasn’t abolition, but he didn’t want to keep it the same either. He supported a movement known as “Colonization” which was based on the idea to free the slaves and rid them all of the U.S. by sending them to Liberia. A “great emancipator” would want these freed sla

ves to have a chance to live out the american dream.

Slavery had existed around the world for thousands of years. When the industrial revolution began, slaves weren’t needed as much anymore. Slavery in Europe and in the northern U.S. ended. The Quakers abolished slavery because they thought of it as an offense to God. Many countries including England, France and Spain had slaves, but they freed them peacefully. In some cases slaves were freed for money. Another way was for slave children to be freed after a certain age.

Lincoln's true thoughts of racial equality come forward in a debate with Senator Stephen Douglas in Ottawa. Again, he contradicts himself on where his own stance on slavery is. "I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary." (11).

Slavery was not Lincoln’s main concern, the state of the Union was. Lincoln had a chance to free slaves that were in Missouri, which had been taken by the Union in 1861 and was then named Union territory. The slaves that were in this territory and could have been freed. John Fremont, the Union General, created the Marshall Law. The Marshall law said that anyone who didn’t cooperate with the Union Army would have their property taken away and their slaves freed. When Lincoln heard this, he fired Fremont immediately.

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