Lincoln’s Constitution Dilemma
Why was Lincoln so slow in emancipating the slaves and why did he limit emancipation to only slaves in territory beyond control of the US (still ruled by the Confederacy)?
Historians interpret or explain historical facts, and the same facts might prompt different explanations based on the historian’s analysis of the sources of information and the information itself — the facts. The sources and the data therein are sometimes called evidence. It is the historian’s job to find as much relevant evidence as possible and to interpret or explain what happened based on that evidence. Your follow-up question is based on the text of Eugene H. Berwanger, “Lincoln’s Constitution Dilemma: Emancipation and Black Suffrage,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 5, no. 1 (1983), http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.2629860.0005.104/, as well as on what the textbook says about the topic, and any other scholarly source(s) you want. Answer one of these:
Answer in at least 250 words of substance, and add your source citations as Chicago-style footnotes
Response in 250-300 words. Answer also requires at least one source citation in the Chicago style.
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Abraham Lincoln was so slow in liberating emancipating slaves. This was due to by liberating the slaves quickly laid on the line the support he wanted to prosecute the war in order to preserve the Union. This was due to the Kansas- Nebraska Act, which would allow the Kansas into a Union as a slave state in the United States. This was evident in the divided parties, which wanted to liberate the slaves while the other parties……………………
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