On the 12 of February 1809 a boy named Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Lincoln came from humble beginnings, living in a log cabin in backwoods Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois and working to help support his family by giving everything he earned to his father. As Lincoln developed into adulthood, countless people and events shaped and refined his views. People who significantly impacted these views included his father, mother, and wife as well as experiences such as his family’s move from Kentucky to Indiana and his trip down the Mississippi river on a flatboat. These experiences are what formed his vehement belief against the institution of slavery, declaring that, “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong” (Norton). Starting in Kentucky in his early life, is where he was first impressed with the idea that slavery was wrong.
While living in Kentucky, Abraham’s father and mother took part in the Baptist Church as well as a “company of western abolitionists” (qtd. in “Experiences with” par. 1), both of which received opposition from the pro- slavery population. When Abraham was seven years of age, to …show more content…
When he brought home his profits, it was given to his father, not because he had wanted to relinquish his earnings, but because he was pressed into contributing his gains. In a speech Abraham acknowledged this stating, “There is my old friend John Roll. He used to be a slave, but he has made himself free, and I used to be a slave, and now I am so free that they let me practice law” (qtd. in “Experiences with” par. 16). With this in mind, Lincoln thought himself to be a slave at one point. His father took his earnings from the work he performed, used it for his own betterment, and partially to help feed him, as any master does to his
While living in Kentucky, Abraham’s father and mother took part in the Baptist Church as well as a “company of western abolitionists” (qtd. in “Experiences with” par. 1), both of which received opposition from the pro- slavery population. When Abraham was seven years of age, to …show more content…
When he brought home his profits, it was given to his father, not because he had wanted to relinquish his earnings, but because he was pressed into contributing his gains. In a speech Abraham acknowledged this stating, “There is my old friend John Roll. He used to be a slave, but he has made himself free, and I used to be a slave, and now I am so free that they let me practice law” (qtd. in “Experiences with” par. 16). With this in mind, Lincoln thought himself to be a slave at one point. His father took his earnings from the work he performed, used it for his own betterment, and partially to help feed him, as any master does to his