Abraham Lincoln's Struggle to End Slavery

Abraham Lincoln's Struggle to End Slavery

The most important event in U.S. history, the second half of the XIX century, was a civil war, which resulted from an irreconcilable contradiction between the wages system, entrenched in the North, and the system of slavery in the South. The crisis in relations between North and South, and deepened over several decades, exacerbated by 50 years and received permission in the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States during the civil war for the liberation of blacks - without doubt one of the brightest and most popular names last time, is now universally made known to the child and part of folk literature (Belz, 11).

This is a real national hero and a worker, who headed a vast state during a bloody struggle against slavery, affects not only their energy and talents of a politician - he is infinitely good, simple man, with the tenderest heart, responding to every human suffering, always ready to fight against all oppression, violence and injustice.

Lincoln grew up in the poorest among American settlers in the hard work for a crust of bread, among all sorts of hardship and constant struggle with nature. Due to the natural talent and incredible work he has achieved the highest social position, but at the height of his fame and popularity of the man who is close the entire human, has always prevailed in him over a political figure. In this feature the character of Lincoln and the secret part of his popularity.

On the political activities of Abraham Lincoln and the Time of Troubles of the American civil war there is an entire literature. The purpose of this essay - namely those of shade, and details the life of Lincoln, which, even in the midst of exceptional difficulties, government, fell on them - it is dominated by the above-mentioned features and is a tireless fighter for the innate human rights.

The Crisis Of Plantation

On cotton production, generates huge profits, battened handful of planters, slave owners, is less than three percent of the population 15 southern slave states. Of the 12 million people Residents of the slave states of about 4 million were slaves. Existence of a large plantation built on the use of slave labor precluded the successful development of small-scale farming. Most of the farmers and their families numbering about 6 million people, ruined, turned into a "poor whites". The largest slaveholders exercised undivided sway not only over slaves, but over millions of "poor whites" (Diggins, 7).

This plantation system based on slave labor experienced a deep inner crisis; negros slaves resisted the exploitation and all the forces fighting against it. Along with the characteristic form of resistance uprisings of slaves were runaways. To assist fugitives came abolitionists. Labor Productivity of Negro slaves was extremely low, to make them work, their every move watched armed overseers.

The Civil War in Kansas

Led by the Democratic Party government supported the slave trade (although ...