What was Abraham Lincoln's belief about slavery?

Answer 1

Abraham Lincoln's belief regarding slavery was that it was wrong, unless the slave wanted to work for the person and was paid and allowed to quit, basically meaning the person was free and was paid to do their job.

President Lincoln did not personally believe in slavery. He tried to assure the South that if elected he would leave slavery where it already existed unharmed. He was opposed to the expansion of slavery into the US territories, a view shared by many Americans. His Emancipation Proclamation was a war measure however, later he saw the moral value in it. Lincoln also believed that freed slaves would not be treated fairly in the US and like a good number of abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, he believed that resettling freed slaves in a tropical nation was the best thing for them.

Answer 2

Abraham Lincoln believed that what will be--will be-- and nothing can change it, not even prayer. He believed that praying to a god was a waste of time. He mocked the idea of Immaculate Conception. Before he got into politics he would tell of the inconsistencies in The Bible and how the Bible contradicted itself. When he became a politician he was able to use those Bible stories he learned as a young man to get his message across to masses.

　

Abraham also believed in transmutation of species (Evolution).

Abraham Lincoln believed that all humans were created equally and should share equal freedoms. He abolished slavery in the 1800s.

Abraham Lincoln originally believed that African Americans would want to go back to Africa to live in their own country, but was told by Frederick Douglass that the African Americans now saw America as their own country too.
Abraham Lincoln believed in human rights and equality. Proof of this can be found in his movements to abolish slavery.

Answer 3

Lincoln believed the purpose of the war was to preserve the federal union. He did think of the seceding states as a new nation but rather as US citizens who were rebelling against their lawful government.

Answer 4

Abraham Lincoln's beliefs in slavery are confusing. He was, in fact, not an abolitionist. He didn't want to free the slaves, he just didn't want slavery to spread. Later in the Civil War, he DID wnat to abolish slavery and did so.

Answer 5

what did Abe Lincoln believed

Answer 6

the three things was Abraham licoln(Honest Abe)said slavery was bad and should not grow illegally