As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should be emancipated, advocating a program in which they would be freed gradually. Early in his presidency, still convinced that gradual ...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A rare Lincoln manuscript sold for $3.4 million on Thursday at Sotheby's auction house. The 1864 letter in which Abraham Lincoln ... freedom for all slaves held in areas "in ...

Before his historic presidency and before the legendary Lincoln-Douglas debates that would define his political rise, Abraham ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although both sides sometimes ... Abraham Lincoln, Letter to Horace Greeley, Aug. 22, 1862. 42. Douglass, What the Black Man Wants, Jan ...

He led his nation through the most difficult times it had known, restoring a shattered Union and ending slavery in America ... country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American ...