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disliked slavery, but did not believe the fed. gov. could ban it in places it already exists. "this struggle is to save the Union, not to either save or destroy slavery"
Lincoln was opposed to slavery and he wanted free blacks to form colonies elsewhere instead of staying in the United States.
Lincoln felt that slavery was wrong, he felt that the national government overpowered the state governments.
Many people think he was against the idea of slavery, but really he was not. Abraham Lincoln used slavery as a leverage on trying to get the south to join the union by saying he would free the salves if they did not join back. But otherwise it was not his intentions to stop slavery.
Unfortunately, the view of Radical Republican prevailed in Reconstruction.
Would be better of in their own country.
He was anti-slavery
Not that I have ever read. He had the school for navigation and was more interested in maps than slaves.
the were pro slavery
Like most Northerners, Lincoln had been willing to tolerate slavery in its traditional heartlands, but did not like the prospect of an extended slave-empire. When he issued his Emancipation Proclamation, it was for strictly tactical reasons, though no doubt it also caused some Northerners to re-define their views on the slave system.
He writted his book "Slavery in the United States" (1836) to express his view.
anti- slavery view.