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Lincoln was for slavery
At first he thought that African-Americans should be slaves, but he felt like a slave when his father sold him out to his neighbors to earn money, but the money was only for his father to have. Then he changed his mind about slavery.

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To keep the USA in one piece - another way of saying he wanted to retrieve the cotton revenues.

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