Abraham Lincoln

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in the spirit which prized liberty as the
heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have
planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with
the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them (World Book
Encyclopedia).
He lost his campaign for the Senate, but during the debates with his
opponent Stephen Douglas, he became well known for his opposotion to slavery.
The southern states, which believed they depended upon slavery to remain
prosperous in the cotton, tobacco, and rice industries, threatened to secede
from the nation if Lincoln won the election. Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4,
1861, and by April 12, the southern states had formed the Confedrate States of
America and the Civil War began.
It was during the Civil War that Lincoln proclaimed the slaves free in
the Confederate states. This was his famous Emancipation Proclamation, issued
in 1863.
But Lincoln knew that something else had to be done ...

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