Difference Between Lincoln And Slavery

Lincoln and Slavery Slavery is most likely one of the worst events that took place in America. President Lincoln had a very difficult challenge of maintaining a stable country as debates over slavery arose. Once the debates got out of hand and the country turned to fighting, war was inevitable. After the southern states seceded from the union, some northern men joined the army to reunite the country, and some to abolish slavery. The southern men viewed the north as a tyrant power taking away their rights and properties. While the union outnumbered the south four men to one, the south believed they would win because they fought with a greater sense of honor. The civil war ended up being the bloodiest war in American history and a dark time
Freeing the slaves meant that many of the now free African Americans went to go and join the union forces. With the union already greatly outnumbering the confederates, made this Proclamation detrimental to the southern rebels. Many of the slaves that escaped and found union soldiers, and wanted to help them in any way they could. Since they were not trained soldiers the freed slaves were given tasks like cleaning or cooking. A soldier from Illinois wrote that, “every regt has negro teamsters and cooks which puts that many more men back in the ranks… It will make a difference in the regt of not less than 75 men that will carry guns that did not before we had negros.” Lincoln also wanted to make the war appear legitimate to the Europeans, who bought most of the souths cotton. Instead of the Europeans viewing the war as the Union not being able to control the Souths rebellion, now the Emancipation Proclamation added the aspect of fighting for a valid reason. After the battle of Antietam Lincoln wrote the proclamation and, “he changed the conflict from a war to restore the Union to a struggle to end slavery.” As well, Lincoln hoped the Proclamation could help some of the confederate’s soldiers to realize the horrors of slavery, “The President hoped that slave emancipation would undermine the Confederacy from within.” After Lincoln wrote the Proclamation many of
House of Representatives to pass the Thirteenth amendment to forever end slavery because he wanted to make sure that there were no doubts on the legality of his Emancipation Proclamation. While the Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the states occupied by the confederates, this new amendment would eliminate slavery in the remaining border states and all of America. The republican party had made ending slavery a part of their platform more than 10 years before the Thirteenth amendment was passed. The republicans said that, “the spirit of our institutions as well as the Constitution of our country, guarantees liberty of conscience and equality of rights among citizens, we oppose all legislation impairing their security.” Lincoln being a republican, passing this amendment meant a lot for him since he had been trying to stop slavery for years prior. Before Lincoln was president, he was still against slavery, “elected as a Whig to Congress in 1846, Abraham Lincoln gained notoriety when he lashed out against the Mexican War, calling it immoral, proslavery, and a threat to the nation's republican values.” That is why after all that time fighting slavery it was so important to Lincoln to see the end of it. This amendment was extremely tough on the confederates because after the war they had to swear an oath to obey the constitution, meaning they had to obey the passing of the thirteenth