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evolution of slavery
1. The Ablation of slavery
Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12,1809 in a one room log cabin.
He left home and canoed to New Salem Illinois, where he signed to a local river boat firm
At the age of 21. Lincoln took case dealing with everything from homicide to navigation rights
to slave laws.
On March 4, 1861 Lincoln was inaugurated a president of the United States, secession
was an accomplishment fact. The guns roared first at fort Sumter , turning back Lincoln’s relief
expedition . both sides called for troops , more southern then states seceded, and the national
plunged head long in to civil war(discovery channel)
The time of Lincoln was inaugurated allowing agents to imprison
anyone ,including mayor of the Baltimore , for any of time without trail or probable cause.
This limitation on civil liberties gradually spread across the union until some 13,000 citizens
were availed. The Emancipation proclamation, issued on New Year’s Day freed all the slaves in
the rebellious states.
Civil war trust Emancipation proclamation page Lincoln was not the only member of
his administration to be attacked on the night of April 14, 1865 . Earlier that night president
Lincoln and his wife went to theater. During the third act an assassin sipped president into
2. Lincoln’s box , shot the president in the head, leaped on stage , before a startled audience , and
Fled into the darkness. Soldiers carried the slumped figure across the street to a boarding house
a laid Lincoln across the bed. The next morning death came to the man whom power had
ennobled.
In 1858 Lincoln said in his speech “I have always hated slavery, I think as any abolition
Is, I have been an old line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it
Until this new era of the Nebraska extinction.
I have said it hundreds of times, and now inclination to take it back, that I believe
there is no right, and ought to be inclination in the people of free states to enter onto the slave
states , and interfere with the questions of slavery at all. (Black,Eric)
Almost to the end of his life , he maintained that the constitution provided no
authority for the federal government to abolish slavery in the states where it had long existed .
