How Lincoln Changed America Research Paper

Lerone Bennett Jr. was wrong! “You can’t defend Abraham Lincoln without defending slavery.” Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery, he fought and stood for the slaves, and wanted slaves to be like everybody else. If Lincoln wasn’t president, then slavery might still be in play to this day. Abraham Lincoln changed America has a whole.

It took President Lincoln several years to abolish slavery. Slavery was very popular in the southern states ,because slavery was one of the primary sources of their economy. The slaves were also the primary source of labor in the southern states. They worked the fields on the plantations. When Lincoln found out the southern states were winning the war, he had to call for a “game changer” on the southern states. Lincoln’s “game changer” was to abolish the primary source of the south’s economy, slavery. Lincoln worked countless hours of forming the Emancipation Proclamation, which free all slaves in the south excluding the bordering states from north to south. From this slavery was over, and almost every black was free on January 1, 1863.
The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. Lincoln, also wanted the slaves to have the right to vote. In his last speech, before he was assassinated, Lincoln recommended African Americans that fought for the Union have the right to vote. In Lincoln’s speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lincoln said, “I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.” Lincoln wanted no more slavery and want the slaves to be