Abraham Lincoln Biography

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    My name is Abraham Lincoln. I was born on February 12, 1809, and was living in poverty since birth. Because of this, I educated myself to become a lawyer, a leader to the Whig Party, and a US Congressman I later on became the 16th president of the United States. 

    While i was only practicing law at the time, I was shocked to hear about the Kansas-Nebraska Act, a bill proposed by Stephan Douglas, my competitor in the Lincoln-Douglas debate. This act  was proposed to allow slavery to spread into Kansas and Nebraska, which was free territory. I have always hated slavery from the very beginning, so hearing about congress passing the act, I immediately took action.

    After a few months, I delivered a speech about this act and outlined my views on slavery's immorality.

  • "How can the members of the Democratic Party support a law that they assume there can be moral right in the enslaving of one man by another."
  • "This goes completely against America's founding principle that all men are created equal."

I spoke in a manner of advocacy not to completely ban slavery since there is risk of a civil war, but to stop it from spreading in order to better preserve the union.

  • "Slavery will surely die a slow death."
I started a campaign in the state of Kansas to raise money and support of antislavery shortly before running for US Senate in 1859. Though I may have lost that battle, I continued to receive more and more support from many abolitionists in the north, and  this consistency would continue forward to my presidency.

In 1862, I issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all enslaved people in the Confederacy states. It has greatly impacted the purpose of the civil war. It was no longer about the protection and preservation of the union, but rather the end of slavery itself. 

  • "...the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
  • The Executive Government of the United States ... will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons ... and will do no act ... to repress ... any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. 

Though it didn't have a huge effect on slavery at first, but with time it led to the 13th amendment of the constitution due to it's symbolic power on slavery.

Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclomation
  • "It is my greatest and most enduring contribution to the history of the war.”
  • “It is, in fact, the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century."

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