Abraham Lincoln: Abolishing Slavery

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My View on Lincoln When I first learned American history in junior high, I got into the idea of that Lincoln Abraham was the president who freed the slaves. Yet it would be many yrs before I was able to fully comprehend the long history of the progress of abolishing slavery. History often portrayed Lincoln as a moral man, who was sickened by the concept of slavery and therefore used his power as president to abolish the practice, yet depending on who you ask you may get a different version of history. Things get a little complicated if you considered the two sides. As Lincoln once addressed, “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the

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