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