what did you learn about Abraham Lincoln and/or the end of slavery from this interview that surprised you?

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“After listening to the interview with Bruce Levine, there were a few things that caught my attention. About 1 out of every 3 people in the south suddenly moved away from bondage and moved to freedom. Abraham Lincoln ended up changing courses during the war. He wanted to compel the slave stage to return to the Union and ended up promising that he wouldn’t interfere with slavery in the succeeding states. Coming to find out, Lincoln had no intention in freeing the slaves. As the war went on, Lincoln ended up stripping the South from their slave labor.

When Lincoln went into office he said he believed that this was an immoral institution as well as a politically backward and economically stunting institution. Lincoln and his party also believed that slavery needed to expand in order to survive. The way to eventually end slavery was to prevent it from spreading. In doing so, it made the South very angry. The discovery of bringing the slavery states back into the Union didn’t quite go as well as planned. The Emancipation of Proclamation was very bold and extended only to those slaves who were living in parts of the confederacy not yet occupied by the U.S. forces, excluding Louisiana, Tennessee as a whole. It did not apply to the slaves who were living in the four states that were in the Union. By the end of the Civil War, about 200,000 black men (about 80% were from the South) had served in either the Union Army or the Union Navy making this an enormous help in the military especially when volunteering decreased dramatically. The idea that the Republics are stable is not very widespread. The more powerful the motive is to desire to preserve the Union in order to preserve the Republican property.”

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