Well, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ordered the freedom of slaves in the areas "in rebellion", and proposed the 13th ammendment
To find gold and metals, to increase trade, to compete with Spain to be the dominant power in Europe.
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The most persuasive and compelling argument made by abolitionists was that slavery is a sin, something immoral and contrary to the principles of Christianity.
The abolitionist movement began in the 1830s in the United States, and it started as a movement with a religious profile, it became a political and ideological topic; it was a sensitive, highly polemic issue that caused much acrimonious controversy, confrontation and the division of the country.
American abolitionists were in the beginning religious white men, though white women, black men and women joined it later.
US abolitionists copied the tactics and strategy followed by abolitionists in Great Britain. In general, British anti-slavery supporters started to question intellectually the existence of slavery on moral and religious grounds in the late 18th century; it became an influential religious effort and finally, it became a political issue. Slavery in the whole empire was abolished in the 1830s.
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