Lincoln's Changing View of Slavery

Carronade

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Lincoln said the nation could not long endure half slave and half free, that it would have to become all one or all the other; and I don't think he was suggesting that the northern states accept slavery.

His immediate purpose in 1861 was simply to preserve the Union, and I think he spoke honestly when he said he would free some, all, or none of the slaves in order to accomplish that; but I doubt he envisioned slavery persisting indefinitely thereafter.
 
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