Abraham Lincoln: Chattel Slavery

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th United States President, is one of the legendary figures in American politics and it is true that Lincoln led a movement for the emancipation of the slaves. He indicated a system of chattel slavery as it “enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites.” In other words, Lincoln was the admired president that fought for human equality. However, his meaning toward “emancipation of slaves” is slightly different what nowadays people think because of what he saying: “My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia to their own native land.” Lincoln favored colonization, so an African-American migration to Africa would resolve the slavery problem. Basically,