Did Abraham Lincoln Stop Black Slavery?
I know that he wanted too and although black people had issues up until long after Abraham Lincoln’s Death but did he achieve anything when he tried to stop it?
Answer by Just Me
This is a tough question because depending on who you ask, you will probably get a different answer. From a historical perspective Lincoln was the president in office when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued which technically abolished slavery.
Answer by Isola
Abrham Lincoln and the Republican Party issued and signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Later, the 13th Constitutional Amendment was passed, which declared that slavery was illegal in the states. This was severly opposed by the Democratic Party at the time who wanted to continue slavery,
Answer by dreamprotector 09
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which officially ended plantation slavery and ended any possible secession from the Union by the states. However, blacks were still denied total equality with separate hotels, bars, bathrooms, separate colleges and separate schools and denied certain jobs. The rule seemed to be separate but equal. The Supreme Court decided in Brown vs. Topeka (1954) that blacks could enter and have equal schools.
Since the 1950′s blacks have attained better treatment and acceptance. Martin Luther King brought a lot of attention to black inequality in the John F. Kennedy administration (1960-1962) and Lyndon Johnson administration which followed with many riots, demonstations, sit ins, confrontations and marches. This is good overview. So it has been a gradual process..I hope this helps!
Answer by Naz F
‘Dream’ has a great answer, but needs some specifics: The Emancipation Proclamation was passed in 1862; freeing some slaves, but promising that all the Southern slaves would be freed once the Union had conquered the South. This was passed on Lincoln’s personal authority, called an ‘executive order.’
In 1865, the Senate and House passed the 13th Amendment, ending slavery for good; Lincoln was still president.
The separate-but-equal laws after 1865, which kept down African Americans and prevented them from voting in the South (until the Democrat presidency of Lyndon Johnson) were called the Jim Crow laws.
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Did you know that the Republican Pres. Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery, and the Democrats wanted to keep it?
Republicans have always stood for equality for EVERY AMERICAN, and just as you see now, the left wing is always dividing this nation by constantly pitting one group against another! ——– And NO, I’m not on the left! I’m Republican and I want people to stop turning a blind eye to the TRUTH!!!
For schplakk … after I pay all my “patriotic” taxes, my insurance and overhead, etc., this pampered elitest doc (as you call me) takes home a near whopping ,000/year!!! Sorry, bud, I stand for the people, just like McCain & Palin do! Your Obama buddy will still tax me to death, I’m not stupid enough to believe HE stands for the American people! Republicans are ALWAYS for the people!!!
For schplakk … after I pay all my “patriotic” taxes, my insurance and overhead, etc., this pampered elitist doc (as you call me) takes home a near whopping ,000/year!!! Sorry, bud, I stand for the people, just like McCain & Palin do! Your Obama buddy will still tax me to death, I’m not stupid enough to believe HE stands for the American people! Republicans are ALWAYS for the people!!!
Answer by Cherry D
Times do change things doesn’t it. The south was always a blue state until the 1960′s.
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So………
Answer by Louisiana Hot Boy
Well, saying you’re a Republican is kinda unnecessary.
Answer by SystemTech W
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EVERYONE THAT IS A THINKING AMERICAN KNOWS THAT…. ALSO THEY KNOW THAT KKK IS DEMOCRAT….ONLY THAT LIBERAL BLACKS: CHOOSE TO BE BLIND AND FOLLOW THE HOLLY-WEED NUTS (SANDRA BERNHARD, MOORE, CLOONY, PENN, LOHAN, MAHER, AND MANY OTHER IDIOTIC), THEY FOLLOW THE COCAINE INDUCE DREAM OF OBAMA TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY HE CLEARLY DISLIKES, HIS WIFE WAS NEVER PROUD, JOSH HOWARD OF THE NBA HATES OUR SYMBOLS, ETC……. AND THESE ARE RICH BLACK PEOPLE!!!
BLACK COMMUNITY IS BLIND AND DEAF, CONFUSED BY THE CONTINUE PANDERING OF THE HATE-MONGERS, LIKE THE SHARPTON’S, WRIGHT’S, JACKSON’S, FARRAKHANS, OF THEIR COMMUNITY…THEY ARE THE BLAME FOR WHAT THEY WILL GET IN RETURN, OBAMA WILL KILL THE SMALL BUSINESS AS WE KNOW IT, DUE TO HIS TAX THE “RICH”, $250,000+. SMALL “C” CORPS, AND” S” CORPS., WHICH ARE THE MAJORITY OF THE SMALL BUSINESS EVERYWHERE, THAT ARE JUST MAKING THE MARK, AND THEY EFFORTS, THEIR HARD WORK, WILL BE PUNISHED BY OBAMA AND HIS CRONNIES… SO HE CAN FEEL GOOD TO PROMISE FREE… MORE WELFARE, IS THAT THE CHANGE THEY WANT? BUT,
HOWEVER, STILL, THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE THAT DO HAVE A MIND OF THEIR OWN AND THEY DO QUESTIONED THE MOTIVES AND LIES OF OBAMA AND HIS CRONNIES, BUT THEY GET NAMES LIKE, SELL-OUTS, ETC… I.E… SEE MR. COSBY, WHEN HE DID POINT OUT THE TRUTH, ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY, TEEN PREGNANCY, SINGLE PARENTS, IRRESPONSIBLE MAN, AND CRIME ON BLACK BY BLACKS, MR. COSBY, THAT DOES HAVE BEST INTENTIONS TO HELP GOOD PEOPLE, AND HE BELIEVES IN HIS HEART THAT HE WILL BE HELPING THEM, (HE GIVES THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO HELP… NOT JUST WORDS…. HE WAS CHASTISED AND ATTACKED BY MANY OF THEM… AND THOSE THAT CRITIZE HIM, NEVER EVER DID ANYTHING FOR THEM… JUST TAKE AND PROMOTE THEIR AGENDA OF HATE.
SEE? THEY ARE SO BLIND THAT THEY WILL EVEN SIDE WITH A MAN THAT WILL SUPPORT TO AWARD CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO TERRORISTS AND HE WANTS AND SUPPORTS THE RIGHT TO KILL BABIES… LATE TERMS INCLUSIVE! I AM NOT SURE, BUT THEY HAVE GREAT RATE CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEADLOCK, SO THAT MEANS OBAMA IS AGAINST THEM FOR KEEPING THE KIDS WHEN THEY CAN NOT SUPPORT THEM?
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HE DOES NOT SPEAK AGAINST DURFUR MASSACRES; HE SUPPORTS TERRORISTS LIKE HIS BROTHER ROY OBAMA, WHICH IS A MEMBER OF THE LOU TERRORIST GROUP IN KENYA, ODINGA… SO, OBAMA’S THINKING IS, WHY PROTECT THEM… THEY ARE CONSIDERED… VERY-LATE-TERM-BABIES… SO IS FINE THEY CAN DIE TOO!
WOW… A DISCOVERY, NOW I UNDERSTAND HIS MIND… WAY TO GO, OBAMA!!! THEY DON’T MATTER TO HIM BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT VOTE FOR HIM… THAT IS THE REAL TRUTH…
You have got to be joking.
I have seen so much disgusting racism on this site from Republicans, not to mention all of them who keep spreading the lie that Obama is Muslim and therefore scary and horrifying and unfit to be president.
You think that’s standing for equality? I most certainly do not think so.
I’m perfectly willing to give you yourself the benefit of the doubt and believe you when you say that you believe in equality for all people. Not everybody in the Republican party does, and it is grossly obvious. As long as you’re a white heterosexual Christian, Republicans think you’re just fine. Anything other than that and they treat you like scum.
Have you realized also that the republican party does not practice what it used to stand for. Originally it stood for smaller or less government and less spending, more personal liberties, government staying out of peoples personal lives, etc etc. It is in many cases going against most of these issues.
To me even though I`m a (Ron Paul) conservative type. I see my party as more hypocritical than I like it to be. Ron Paul has the best true republican theme of any politician in the U.S. today. You can`t be a true American, unless you live by the rule of our constitution. He votes and lives by it, too bad we did not put him in as a front runner. We all wimped out and voted like sheep.
And before Lincoln, the Republicans stood for truth, justice and freedom. They fought valiantly in the War of 1812 and the War for Independence, and in the states of New York, Philadelphia, and Nevada. When taking over from George Washington, they decided what the nation really needed was a tax cut, and so the first deficit was born. It was a tiny deficit, but they nurtured it and saw it grow. And then they reduced the tarriff – which at the time was the sole revenue source of the government. And they reduced and reduced it and reduced it, saying what good will come of it, and proudly exclaimed that by reducing tariffs and having jobs flow to Mexico and China and importing everything from England and Germany that things would truly be wonderful. And so the debt ran higher, and people left the workforce and all the steel mills closed and the cloth industry and carriage industry and suddenly people realized that the country did not make anything there anymore, and all that was left was working in ale houses and begging in the street.
if republicans are for equality then what about gay rights?
I will try to keep this short.
The South was a democratic stronghold for nearly 100 years due directly to the fact that Lincoln was a Republican and he abolished slavery, let me repeat that.
The South was Democrat for nearly 100 years because they OPPOSED Lincoln. so vehemently.
Then a funny thing happened LBJ (Democrat) advocated for civil rights laws, immediately the former Democrats who OPPOSED Lincoln jumped ship due to the Democrats new-found progressive civil rights policies.
Nixon utilized a now infamous strategy referred to as the Southern strategy he courted the deep south racists based on his opposition to civil rights legislation.
This is the short version of how the Republicans became the home of the bigots in this country.
You have passion however you have to go futher back into American History. Its not much country only been around for over 200 years!
Obama/Biden 2008!
Ebony & Ivory presidency!
Republicans/Democrats 150-yrs ago were very different parties
How about 76% of democrats voting against the civil rights act of 1964? The Dems rely on keeping the black man down in order to have a huge portion of the population rel;iant on the government. It is so sad.
Oh and 96% of republicans voted FOR the Civil rights act!
DID YOU EVER NOTICE LINCOLN IS THE ONLY PRES. FACING THE OTHERWAY ON A COIN. THAT BASTARD.
Although this Republican president Mr. Bush still has his Katrina victims/ AMERICANS still living in trailers? Could they be put on the back burner maybe because most of them are poor AND black? Hows that for truth for ya?!!
Indiana had a Republican GOV who was a KKK member. So much for your TRUTH
Republican Klansman Edward Jackson was elected governor in 1924
Yes. Did you know that Martin Luther King was a Republican and that it was the Dems who opposed Civil Rights in the 60′s? It’s true.
Is this what you learned in class today little girl?
Right up through the Wilson Presidency the Democratic party was very racist.
Then things started to reverse. Look at where the South votes…..that points to the most racist party. It used to be pure Democrat….now it’s pure Republican.
We can thank the Democratic party for the success of the Civil Rights movement….probably the biggest accomplishment since WWII.
If republicans stand for the equality of every American, how come poor people do not have access to higher education or proper healthcare.
Doesn’t sound very equal to me.
Abraham Lincoln was a liberal in that sense though!
and that makes the rednecks who were against him conservatives!
Yes and later republicans were against allowing blacks to go to school with whites.
It was not about caring for blacks.. Republicans cared about the South having money and free labor and state rights.
Using 150 year old slander, kind of desperate, everyone knows both parties are nothing like they were then
Many blacks won’t be swayed by lies and the south has changed much since then and slavery was deper in the south.
Lincoln did it only to win the war…he really didn’t do it out of concern of the slaves.
yes i find it hilarious … i live in south georgia and down here the local candidates go door to door..i asked one why there was nooone running on the republican side he said if you look back since lincoln georgia is primarily democrat…so i do find it funny the one thing the republicans tried to do be equal to all comes back to bite them because the racist dem party of that era now has the first african american candidate…true irony….
The democrats, who I will give the benefit of the doubt to and at least say they mean well, are also on the wrong side of the civil rights issue of *our* time.
Much like they were on the wrong side of the slavery issue, they are on the wrong side of the education issue in America. They frequently stonewall when it comes to school vouchers which would allow black and Hispanic families and students to escape the terrible inner-city public school system where they would be able to better ensure themselves a bright future which usually only an education can bring in this country.
Democrats continue to trap these people in terrible schools by not allowing vouchers while they send their little princesses to private school. It would be sickening if it wasn’t such a tragedy.
O.K. Spoken by a pampered, elitist doctor. Only rich people buy into this, because they know that Repubs are out to protect the very wealthy, while putting the tax burden on the middle class.
They also want to make our great nation a socialist nation, (like Russia) with national health care, bigger government…more and more taxes…Now put two and two together….
What does this tell you about the Democrats?…….
Oh shut up.
You tell me who has divided this nation more than George W. Bush.
Yes, and also it was the Republicans who sided with Lyndon B. Johnson and passed the Civil Rights Reform Bills in the ’60′s. The only people who is calling the race card in this election are the Dems.
Yes I do know.
The dem’s also shot down previous black candidates that might have been elevated to the primary.
The stack of corruption among the democrats is much high than the republicans and they seem to accept it. Sure, the average small down democrat might not support what happened, but they are part of the problem if they are going to continue to vote for the same lying and corrupt democratic leadership.
Um you do know that Democrat and Republican meant VERY different things over a hundred years ago right??
Take a history class.
Oh no. He was all for slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t do crap. He didn’t free anyone in the South because he had no jurisdiction and he purposely excluded the Union border states from the freeing. Basically what he said to the South is “you can own slaves….ONLY if you’re a part of the United States.” Obviously the South wasn’t fighting for slavery and totally ignored Lincoln. The only thing that freed the slaves was the 13th Amendment, added AFTER Lincoln’s death.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States. Lincoln did not live to see that Amendment added to the Constitution.
The Emancipation Proclamation, which Lincoln issued during the Civil War, did not abolish slavery. It declared freedom for all slaves in the Confederate states that were making war against the United States. (Those slaves did not actually gain their freedom until after the war, since the federal government had no power to enforce the Proclamation until after the Confederacy had surrendered. Slaves freed by the Proclamation after the war accounted for most of the U.S. slave population, but not all.) The Proclamation did not free slaves in the so-called “border states,” slave states that remained loyal to the United States and did not fight for the Confederacy, and it did not outlaw the institution of slavery.
So yes, Lincoln did achieve a great deal, but it was the 13th Amendment that finished the business of doing away with slavery.
Lincoln never freed a single black slave. The federal government controlled several slave states throughout the war including MD, DE, MO, KY, NJ, and WV, (1860 US census). Yet did not free a single one of the hundreds that were in these states until after the war. Why is that?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed only slaves is those states under rebellion, which the Federal government had no control over again until after the war.