As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed ... The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during the 1850s, as slavery became a critical political ... Major Acts In practical terms, the ...

Abraham Lincoln richly ... and laying the groundwork for the slavery-ending 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Yet there’s a lesser-known reason why Lincoln deserves a special day of remembrance ...

Alan Percy of Manchester Radical Traditions said: “Most people don’t know why there’s a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the centre of Manchester. It’s about Manchester’s industrial past and the battle to ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.