African American Leaders Post- Reconstruction

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In 1854 Abraham Lincoln gave his Peoria, Kansas speech opposing slavery stating the Kansas Act had a "declared indifference, but as I must think, a covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate it. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because” it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world”. Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth President of the United States in 1861. Growing up in non-slave territories as a child and disapproving of slavery, Lincoln had little support in the South. With the country moving forward into a new capitalist society through modernization, new workers would be needed. The South, dependent on slave labor that Lincoln opposed begin to resent this new leadership and set out to form their Government. Because there were no laws regarding slavery, Republicans tried to compromise with the South with money and territory. Lincoln not in favor said "I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right." In 1861 Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act, which gave authority to confiscate and free slave supporting the Confederate Union.
Abolitionists Horace Greeley and Frederick Douglass were urging Lincoln to free the slaves. Lincoln stated “If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save...

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...ington. Du Bois, who opposed racism, was not only concerned on a national level but an international level.
I believe Du Bois had the best approach as it relates to racism because it was on a larger scale. I don’t agree with the negative comments, disagreements, and the opinions he had with Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass.

Works Cited

Thomas DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln: A new look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition; 2003

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, Create Space Independent Publishing Platform; 2013

Booker T Washington, Up From Slavery, Create Space Independent Publishing Platform; 2014

Lerone Bennet, Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America 1619-1964 Penguin Books; 1984

W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Free Press; 1999

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