grumpy old men LOL.
Had an argument with a elementary school teacher about this.
She said it was all about freeing blacks but when I pointed out to her that the border states had slavery and he did not stop slavery in those states or even stop it in areas he had power in then she became a little rattled.
I asked her if she read the documents and his speeches and she said she read “killing Lincoln” by big mouth O.R [sigh]
Seems she had no clue about the border states nor the areas Lincoln had power in and I told her to read the order second to the last paragraph and she said she would.Weeks later she admitted she never did and still stuck by her own public school views of when she was 10
Oh, yeah, the border states. There was horrible fighting between Missourians in some places—awful feuding in parts of the Ozarks during Reconstruction.
And yes—Lincoln. At least early on, his opinion was that African slaves all be transported back to Africa. But again, the context of Lincoln’s situation and perspectives were different from what most people would see now. He thought it was cruel to forcibly bring them to such a strange land (here, in America), as it was. He was also very anti-Slavery, of course.
At least some of the more prominent early feminists/romanticists who spoke in the Northeast for abolition also started riots with their spoken desire for secession. What a mess. Most common people, though, lived very hard lives of nearly nothing but hard labor and lack of comforts. Being very political was for the wealthy and famous.