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The Emancipation Proclamation was written in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War as he attempted to bring peace to the nation and end slavery.

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What does Lincoln encourage these free slaves to do and refrain from doing?

ddf. Actually the real answer is that Lincoln encouraged those free slaves go into freedom forever while the other un freed slaves stayed slave.


Define Abraham Lincoln?

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865), was the sixteenth President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Assassinated as the war was drawing to a close, Lincoln had been the first Republican elected to the Presidency. Before his presidency, he was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Senate.As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. His tenure in office was occupied primarily with the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln's death and was ratified by the states later in 1865.


Who was abrham Lincoln?

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He was elected in 1860 and re-elected in 1864, serving from March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865.----------------Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. As a child, he only attended school for one and one half years, but he read as much as he could. He did not like killing animals, even for food. His early careers were as a lawyer and a legislator.On November 4, 1842, Lincoln married Mary Todd, daughter of a slave owning family. They had four sons: Robert Lincoln, Edward Lincoln, Willie Lincoln, and Tad Lincoln. On March 4, 1861, Lincoln became the 16th (and tallest at 6' 4") President of the United States. His Vice Presidents were Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson.While he was president, the issue of slavery came to a head, and the American Civil War began. Following the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln travelled to the dedication of the site and gave the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot (by John Wilkes Booth) while he was watching a play at Ford's Theater. He died 9 hours later on April 15.(see related bio link)An exceptionally talented President, able to hold together a fractious cabinet, and in due course to choose and use his Generals much more effectively than his opponent, the ex-Regular officer Jefferson Davis.Abraham Lincoln was the 16 president of the United States. He was president during the civil war. He was president in 1861-1865, he was assinated by John Wilkes Booth in a theater on April 14 while watching a play called "Our American Cousin" with his wife, he died the next morning. He was one of the greatest presidents we've ever had.


Why is Abraham Lincoln significant?

The Presidents before him never made a law to keep the states together.Abraham Lincoln said he would do whatever it takes to keep the states together because they had a right to leave, a few almost did. He won the Civil war that involved the slaves. Not everyone loved him some hated him but from my perspective he was the greatest president the world ever had and ever will have.


Was Abraham Lincoln a friend to Africans?

No, he was NOT a friend to African Americans. He felt that whites were superior, and only used the Negro to his advantage during the war. In his own words: "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of... bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything." ~ Abraham Lincoln