Slavery in Us

End of Slavery in US Civil War

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The slave owning in US started the existence since 1776. But after the elections held in November 1960, where the victory went to the Republicans, brought change in the slavery trade. The change was brought by the union of the Republican Party and Lincoln who did not win a single vote in the South when they decided to fight against slavery. They united in order to save the black slavery and supremacy of white men. After the formation of this union, there elapsed the differences between the Southerners and Northerners who believed that the collapse of the union will hinder to have a democratic government. This caused the outbreak of civil war which their main goal was to end slavery.

According to Henretta et al. the antislavery Republicans said their main goal of the civil war was to abolition of the slavery and restoration of the union while and said that the was should continue until the powers of the slaves is completely subjugated. But Lincoln firstly rejected that abolition of the slavery was the main goal of the war and said that it’s the Union’s fate. This is because Lincoln had never thought of putting slavery to an end. The antislavery republicans then pressured Lincoln until he surrendered making the civil war’s goal to be mainly about the slavery. Lincoln saw the abolition of the slavery as the only way to end the rebellion. The president then drafted a general proclamation of emancipation in July 1862, which laid the foundation for the ending and destroying the slavery. The proclamation was then issued on September 22, which based its legal authorities on his responsibility to suppress the civil war and on January 1, 1863 it was signed by Lincoln. Immediately after the war, the abolitionists were therefore worried that the Emancipation Proclamation, which is being based on the Lincoln’s wartime powers, would lose its force post bellum. The president and the National Equal Rights League pushed it...