Slavery and the secession of the Southern States
He did not think slavery should be abolished,but he did not want it to spread to new states
Lincolns plan was to abolish slavery!
Emancipation Proclamation, which abolished slavery in the United States.
He was quite insistent that he had no intention of getting rid of it. And even in the darkest days of the Civil War, he only emancipated slaves in the states that were rebelling, he left slavery legal in the northern states.
To end slavery
Abraham Lincolns main goal at first was to keep the states together. But later slavery was included but no by choice. It just mixed in and was part of it till the end
Lincolns plan was to abolish slavery!
Since he was a young he thought of slavery as wrong doing.
Lincoln was opposed to slavery and he wanted free blacks to form colonies elsewhere instead of staying in the United States.
Nobody really welcomed the civil war... There were things that led up to it like the slavery issue and Lincolns election. The main thing was Lincolns electoin because states in the south started to secced from the union.
Gettysburg Address