As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed ... William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our symapthy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during the 1850s, as slavery became a critical political ... Major Acts In practical terms, the ...

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, signaled the transformation of an expedient military strategy ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

Abraham Lincoln is often ranked as one of the United States’s most important presidents for his role in steering the country through the Civil War and his insistence on abolishing slavery ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the ... the difference between Lincoln’s historical actions and views regarding slavery and how American history often depicts him.

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the ... the difference between Lincoln’s historical actions and views regarding slavery and how American history often depicts him.