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A 3 page paper which examines the history of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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enslaved African people of the nation. History tells people that it was Lincoln who ultimately freed these people through the Civil War. But, in all honesty Lincoln was far more
concerned with other realities in the nation than just slavery and the "possible" unjust condition of slavery. The following paper examines Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation illustrating why he delayed
truly implementing the proclamation. Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation As mentioned, most people assume Lincolns main focus with the Civil War was slavery and abolishing the horrid reality
of this institution. However, the real reason the Civil War started was because many states wished to leave the nation and become their own entity. They even elected their own
President of the Southern States. Lincoln feared greatly that such succession would leave the nation weak and that what the nation truly needed was to be a true and powerful
"Union" of states. Slavery was long an issue between the states as there were only so many states allowed to own slaves, balanced by other states that did not own
slaves. With the declaration of succession, however, Civil War had to be fought. Such information does not mean that Lincoln was against freeing slaves, but in all honesty it
is still argued as to what Lincolns actual beliefs about slavery truly were as they related to the political and economic system of the nation. This is compounded more by
the fact that he had written up the Emancipation Proclamation but hesitated in actually making it law. Personally it seems that he was "vehemently opposed the institution of slavery, but
maintained a pragmatically directed view on the issue of race in order to appease the large population of white supremacists that existed in the North" (Francis, 2007).
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