B) Lenient
He didn't want to be so harsh, and knew they only were being mislead from the rich people making free labor off the slaves. Most of the confederates fighting hardly had slaves and barely shared any "racist pride". So Lincoln was Lenient.
B. The British East India Company ruled India till 1874
Church officials working in the inquisition burned alive both Renaissance scholars and leaders such as Corpernicus, Martin Luther, and Galileo Galilei.
if I'm not wrong, it is executive power
