History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2143 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Lincoln's Early Caution
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The idea
Lincoln disapproved of slavery personally, believed he lacked authority to abolish it, feared border-state secession, and aimed only at restoring the Union.
In practice
His letter to Horace Greeley of August twenty-second, eighteen sixty-two, on what he would do.
Where people slip
He would save the Union without freeing any slave if he could, or by freeing all of them, or by freeing some.
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