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What was Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery during the election of 1860 and the secession crisis that followed the election?
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∙ 11y ago
Abraham Lincoln was a republican candidate, so the party he was part of did not support slavery anyway. But, Lincoln didn't want the expansion of slavery to continue and he did not support the idea of slavery. Although he did not support slavery, he did not propose any ideas on stopping it completely and he was not considered as an abolitionist. Slowly though, his views started to change as the Civil War came into play. His thoughts shifted completely and the only thing he supported was saving the Union. During the secession crisis, the election had just finished, so Lincoln's ideas were still the same.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y ago- Considered slavery an evil but said it must be tolerated, he pledged not to interfere in the institution where it exists
- Needed to keep border states from seceding, this required caution on slavery
- Deep racial prejudice in many areas of the North gave tactic support to white slave owners
- Believed he had no constitutional right to emancipate slaves as long as the slave states remained in the Union
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∙ 7y agoAbraham Lincoln was personally against slavery. However, as a politician prior to the US Civil War, and after the US 1860 presidential elections, Lincoln made it clear that he would enforce the Fugitive Slave Act and he had no intentions to abolish slavery in the South. He was against the expansion of slavery in the Western territories.
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∙ 15y agoI BELIEVE HE WAS AGAINST SLAVERY, CHECK OUT SOME CIVIL WAR BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY
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∙ 13y agoHe did not want any new slave states, but he was not an abolitionist .
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∙ 13y agoHe was against it.
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