Abraham Lincoln's Goals Before The Civil War
The events that occurred during the eighteenth hundreds helped shape the American values that are known today. Nevertheless, these values wouldn’t have been made without the help of influential speakers of that time. Like Frederick Douglass, who’s goal before the Civil War was to show Americans that they are hypocrites for celebrating freedom even though slavery was legal. After the war, Abraham Lincoln also had similar goals to Douglass’s. Lincoln’s goal was to end slavery, but first, he wanted to heal the wounds between the North and South and bring the nation back together into one. The nation did indeed achieve both goals after years of struggle because the nation united and slavery became illegal in all states of America.
Before the Civil
War, Frederick Douglass was invited to the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society convention to address a speech on July 5, 1852. Still identified as a slave, Douglass did not hold back and told audience what it is really like to be a slave on the Fourth of July. In his speech known as “What to the slaves is the Fourth of July,” he explained how slaves would be in chains doing hard labor as Americans celebrated their independence and their country’s values. He argued, “America is false to the past false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to the false to the future.” Meaning that the American people will never admit their wrong doings of slavery and lie whether it’s the past, present or future. America did in fact accomplish abolishing slavery a little more than a decade after his speech. Known as the Thirteenth Amendment, was passed in 1865 by Congress which officially abolished slavery in all territories of the United States. Unfortunately, Douglass was right about the American people. Still today, textbooks in the American education system hides many of the ugly truths concerning slavery. The textbooks don't go into full extent of how slaves were treated on American soil. Abraham Lincoln was the president from the beginning to almost the end of the Civil War. It was no secret that Lincoln was against slavery and his goal was to abolish it completely in the United States. As a start, Lincoln issued an executive order known as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves from the rebellious states in 1863. During his second inaugural speech, Abraham Lincoln stated, “...let us structure on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds…” Meaning that bringing the North and South back into one nation was also Lincoln’s goal before his assassination in April 15, 1865. The North and South did eventually unite soon after the end of the Civil War. But issues between these territories did not quickly resolve. Even in modern America, there is still extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan that believe in white supremacy and not equality. In conclusion, to fully achieve Douglass’s goal, America must be honest with the past or else issues will go unsolved for centuries to come. As for Lincoln's goal, regardless of freedom of speech, extremist groups should not exist. No more hiding facts in American textbooks about slavery. Nor hiding how any minority group was treated in American history. Its is also time for America to stop having hate groups that disrespect and go as far as killing innocent people. This shouldn’t be a law in order to know it’s bad. America must put aside their differences to live in peace.
Before the Civil
War, Frederick Douglass was invited to the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society convention to address a speech on July 5, 1852. Still identified as a slave, Douglass did not hold back and told audience what it is really like to be a slave on the Fourth of July. In his speech known as “What to the slaves is the Fourth of July,” he explained how slaves would be in chains doing hard labor as Americans celebrated their independence and their country’s values. He argued, “America is false to the past false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to the false to the future.” Meaning that the American people will never admit their wrong doings of slavery and lie whether it’s the past, present or future. America did in fact accomplish abolishing slavery a little more than a decade after his speech. Known as the Thirteenth Amendment, was passed in 1865 by Congress which officially abolished slavery in all territories of the United States. Unfortunately, Douglass was right about the American people. Still today, textbooks in the American education system hides many of the ugly truths concerning slavery. The textbooks don't go into full extent of how slaves were treated on American soil. Abraham Lincoln was the president from the beginning to almost the end of the Civil War. It was no secret that Lincoln was against slavery and his goal was to abolish it completely in the United States. As a start, Lincoln issued an executive order known as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves from the rebellious states in 1863. During his second inaugural speech, Abraham Lincoln stated, “...let us structure on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds…” Meaning that bringing the North and South back into one nation was also Lincoln’s goal before his assassination in April 15, 1865. The North and South did eventually unite soon after the end of the Civil War. But issues between these territories did not quickly resolve. Even in modern America, there is still extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan that believe in white supremacy and not equality. In conclusion, to fully achieve Douglass’s goal, America must be honest with the past or else issues will go unsolved for centuries to come. As for Lincoln's goal, regardless of freedom of speech, extremist groups should not exist. No more hiding facts in American textbooks about slavery. Nor hiding how any minority group was treated in American history. Its is also time for America to stop having hate groups that disrespect and go as far as killing innocent people. This shouldn’t be a law in order to know it’s bad. America must put aside their differences to live in peace.