Does the constitution give states the individual liberty to decide if slavery is legal within their borders or not? The vast majority of modern day U.S. citizens would say no. However, this was the central question that dominated the mid-1800’s in America and it fundamentally tore the United States into two opposing nations during the Civil War. Pres. Abraham Lincoln is typically associated with leading the charge against slavery with the 13-15th amendments. However, there is a lot more to Lincoln’s views on slavery than what contemporary history depicts of him. Lincoln’s once said that “I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races” and “I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters
