strengthen the moral cause of the Union
Britain and France had to abandon their plans to grant recognition to the Confederacy and send military aid. It would have looked like a pro-slavery gesture.
Britain and France had to drop their plans to help the Confederates, as the war had now been turned into an official crusade against slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was, like the majority of the Republican party in the 1860s, a moderate. The party was made up of moderates like Lincoln, who believed that the Civil War was about the preservation of the Union and that slavery could be abolished through gradual emancipation, and Radicals, who thought that slavery had to be abolished at once and that was the point of the War. Although gradually Lincoln became more steadfast in his views of immediate abolition (he was instrumental in passing the 13th amendment abolishing slavery), he always remained moderate.
When Lincoln was president, the Emancipation Proclamation was to free all of the slaves in the Confederacy. :)
gradual, colonization and immediate emancipation
Gradual Emancipation was a way to slowly do away with slavery.
Abraham Lincoln and some moderate Republicans favored gradual compensated emancipation of slaves in the United States before the Civil War. They believed this approach would help transition Southern society away from slavery without causing social upheaval. Prominent abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, however, advocated for immediate and uncompensated emancipation.
William Lloyd Garrison
immediate and complete emancipation [FREEING] of enslaved people
The first white abolitionist to call for the "immediate and complete emancipation" of enslaved people was the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
I think it is a gradual work of god
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, as a plantation owner and political figure in Maryland, held mixed views on slavery. While he owned enslaved individuals himself, he also supported gradual abolition and advocated for the end of the transatlantic slave trade. He believed in the need for a gradual approach to phasing out slavery, rather than an immediate emancipation.
Jefferson Davis
The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. Advocating for immediate emancipation distinguished abolitionists from more moderate anti-slavery advocates who argued for gradual emancipation, and from free-soil activists who sought to restrict slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread further west. Radical abolitionism was partly fueled by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, which prompted many people to advocate for emancipation on religious grounds. Abolitionist ideas became increasingly prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 1830s, which contributed to the regional animosity between North and South leading up to the Civil War.
The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. Advocating for immediate emancipation distinguished abolitionists from more moderate anti-slavery advocates who argued for gradual emancipation, and from free-soil activists who sought to restrict slavery to existing areas and prevent its spread further west. Radical abolitionism was partly fueled by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, which prompted many people to advocate for emancipation on religious grounds. Abolitionist ideas became increasingly prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 1830s, which contributed to the regional animosity between North and South leading up to the Civil War.
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