History Now Essay Allies for Emancipation? Black Abolitionists and Abraham Lincoln Manisha Sinha 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Abraham Lincoln was not an original advocate of abolition. In fact we know that his journey to what he called "the central act of my administration, and the great event of the nineteenth century" was a relatively slow, though... Appears in: 18 | Abraham Lincoln in His Time and Ours Winter 2008
Essay Abraham Lincoln and the Passage of the Thirteenth Amendment Allen C. Guelzo Government and Civics "Those who knew Mr. Lincoln best," wrote Illinois Congressman Isaac Arnold, "knew that he looked, confidently, to the ultimate extinction of slavery" and used "every means which his prudent and scrupulous mind recognized as right and...