The Helios Biblios Hour : Death of A Nation / the FACTS only

Lincoln did believe that slavery was morally wrong, but there was one big problem: It was sanctioned by the highest law in the land, the Constitution. The nation’s founding fathers, who also struggled with how to address slavery, did not explicitly write the word “slavery” in the Constitution.(2). LINCOLN DIDN’T BELIEVE BLACKS SHOULD HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS WHITES.Though Lincoln argued that the founding fathers’ phrase “All men are created equal” applied to blacks and whites alike, this did not mean he thought they should have the same social and political rights.(3) LINCOLN THOUGHT COLONIZATION COULD RESOLVE THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY. For much of his career, Lincoln believed that colonization—or the idea that a majority of the African-American population should leave the United States and settle in Africa or Central America—was the best way to confront the problem of slavery.(4) EMANCIPATION WAS A MILITARY POLICY. As much as he hated the institution of slavery, Lincoln didn’t see the Civil War as a struggle to free the nation’s 4 million slaves from bondage. Emancipation, when it came, would have to be gradual, and the important thing to do was to prevent the Southern rebellion from severing the Union permanently in two. (5) THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION DIDN’T ACTUALLY FREE ALL OF THE SLAVES.Since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure, it didn’t apply to border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, all of which had remained loyal to the Union. Lincoln also exempted selected areas of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control in hopes of gaining the loyalty of whites in those states.