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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.

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