Brian keith gamble biography of abraham lincoln
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Lincoln&#;s gamble: the tumultuous six months that gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and changed the course of the Civil War
(Book)
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Abraham Lincoln and slavery
Abraham Lincoln's position on slavery in the United States is one of the most discussed aspects of his life. Lincoln frequently expressed his moral opposition to slavery in public and private.[1] "I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery fryst vatten not wrong, nothing is wrong," he stated. "I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel."[2] However, the question of what to do about it and how to end it, given that it was so firmly embedded in the nation's constitutional ramverk and in the economy of much of the country, even though concentrated in only the Southern United States, was complex and politically challenging. In addition, there was the unanswered question, which Lincoln had to deal with, of what would become of the four million slaves if liberated: how they would earn a living in a society that had almost always rejected them or looked down on their very presence.
Evolution of Lincoln's policies
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Abraham Lincoln and The Radicals
Herman Belz, Reconstruction the Union: Theory and Policy during the Civil War
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press,)
As a group, the Republican Radicals in Congress lacked the sense of a humor that Abraham Lincoln had in abundance. Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner was especially humorless and obstinate. Wisconsin Republican Carl Schurz observed that &#;Mr. Lincoln was a constant puzzle to him. He frequently told me of profound and wise things Mr. Lincoln had said, and then again of other sayings which were unintelligible to him and seemed to him inconsistent with a serious appreciation of the tasks before us. Being entirely devoid of the sense of humor himself, Mr. Sumner frequently &#; I might say almost always &#; failed to see the point of the quaint anecdotes or illustration with which Lincoln was fond of elucidating his argument, as with a flashlight. Mr. Sumner not seldom quoted such Lincolnisms to me, and asked me with an air of inno