What was that really famous speech by Abraham Lincoln about slavery?
I really need to know for this project I’m doing, so if you could help me that would be great. Thanks!
Answer by baserunner316
your in school and you can’t remember the emanacipation proclamation???
Answer by swimnchik25
The Emancipation Proclamation. It was considered a turning point in the war because up until then, Lincoln had only been attempting to focus on keeping the South in the Union. he waited until after the Union victory at the Battle of Antium to give the speech.
Answer by robe
He made several speeches in his campaign stumping within Illinois stating that he was not anti-slavery, nor would he dismantle it.
You’re probably referring to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, politically motivated, encouraged by his staff/peers, to destabilize the South as military opponent by freeing the slaves in the South.
Answer by fourofsix2003
The Emancipation Proclamation. Ok,first,youre still in school and you dont know this??Maybe you should be spending MORE time studying and LESS time on the internet asking people to give you answers for your homework questions.Im sure your parents would be extremely proud of you for NOT knowing the name of Lincolns speech,and also for cheating.Ill bet they would just beam with pride!!!
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What is the truth about slavery ? Did Abraham Lincoln really want to send Black Americans back to Africa ?
Is it true Abraham Lincoln wanted to send Black Americans back to Africa (Liberia to be exact) ?
Answer by Invictus
Actually he wanted to send a lot of them to Panama to dig the canal and leave them there.
Answer by Francis
Yes he also granted freedom to the slaves in the south whom which he had no control over and that’s how the civil war was born.
Answer by muinghan
Actually yes, but not for the reason you are thinking.
Lincoln didn’t think that whites and blacks on an equal playing field would even happen.
That there was way too much animosity.
Too much standing in the way of blacks.
He honestly thought that blacks would be a lot more happy around their own “type” of people.
He thought that there would never be an honest sense of equality.
So he attempted to come to a deal with several countries, Liberia being one.
Well, he was assassinated so nothing ever came of it.
Answer by Not Important
I wish………
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What were the positions of stephen douglas and abraham lincoln on slavery?
Answer by James
Abraham Lincoln opposed the expansion of slavery and Stephen Douglas supported popular sovereignty.
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No.
To a point, yes, but his big push was to have them removed to Central America. He stated that he never wanted them to have the vote, hold office, intermarry with whites or sit on juries. (during a political debate on 18 sep 1858)
- Indeed so, but there were too many American blacks in Liberia!
He proposed after the civil war was over that the Africans that wanted to live in Africa could. The country of Liberia was created because some blacks did choose to go to Africa.
they weren’t immune to the diiseases there if they went
back in 1860 many abolitionist saw that as a good plan.
Lincoln did not say he would free the slaves. He may have just said that to placate the south.
The emancipation was something that happened after the civil war had gone on for a few years
no he just wanted every one free he believed no one should be a slave
~There were many. On the campaign trail and in his first inaugural address, he said “”I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”
Throughout the campaign, he said “I acknowledge the constitutional rights of the States — not grudgingly, but fairly and fully, and I will give them any legislation for reclaiming their fugitive slaves.”
During the war and as late as August 1862, after signing the Second Confiscation Act into law, he said “My paramount object, is to save the Union, and not either destroy or save slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing the slaves, I would do it. If I could save the Union by freeing some and leaving others in slavery, I would do it. If I could save it by freeing all, I would do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because it helps save the Union.” [He made no bones about his preference, either publicly or privately - he desired the second option, but with a slow and gradual phase-out of slavery with compensation being paid to the owners.]
On the day before signing the Emancipation Proclamation, he signed a contract with Bernard Kock by the terms of which the federal government would have helped pay to transport freed slaves to a small Caribbean island where they would have been left to their own devices. His goal was to remove the African Americans in as large numbers as he could from US lands. In arguing that the freed slaves should be segregated or sent abroad to colonies established for that purpose he said to congress:
“It is my purpose to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the government existing there.”
He later said, in discussing the options of colonizing them with segregated areas of Texas, Mississippi and South Carolina:
“If we turn 200,000 armed Negroes in the South, among their former owners, from whom we have taken their arms, it will inevitably lead to a race war. It cannot be done. The Negroes must be gotten rid of.”
To Wendell Phillips, the Boston abolitionist, he said of the Emancipation Proclamation that it was “…the greatest folly of my life.”
As to the Emancipation Proclamation itself, it is a famous pronouncement to be sure, but it did little that Congress had not already done by the Second Confiscation Act, which had been passed and signed by Lincoln 5 months earlier. Of course, the EP was not a speech and it did nothing to abolish slavery. It simply freed slaves in those areas deemed to be ‘in rebellion’ (except all of Tennessee and parts of Louisiana and elsewhere), it was an illegal, unconstitutional exercise of “executive power” under the ‘war powers clause’ and, had it been tested in the Supreme Court, probably would have been rendered void and moot. Of it, Lincoln’s Secretary of State William Seward said: “We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.”
You’re probably thinking of Lincoln’s “house divided against itself” speech, in which he declared that the United States could not survive as a half-slave and half-free nation. The Emancipation Proclamation, which has been mentioned in other answers, is an important historical document, but it’s not a speech.
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/house.htm
The Emancipation Proclamation is his most famous, but he gave one in a debate against Stephen Douglas ,in 1858 I think it was, which really concerned the south and was their main reason for revolting. another one he gave was at the onset of the Mexican-American War where he claimed the war was just going to futher Slavery into the West.