Why did Lincoln only advocate limiting slavery while campaigning for president in 1860, as opposed to abolishing slavery?
-Chris Gannon, Herndon High School, Herndon, VA Because he did not believe in abolition as an immediate goal. He believed that slavery was wrong, but that the Union was more important than the issue of slavery. The task for him was how to nudge it to die out gradually. Simply put, the support of southern white people was far more important than the fate of southern black people. Also, on a practical level, he probably could not have won on an abolitionist platform. Dr. James Grossman The Newberry Library ********** What was the relationship between Lincoln and Frederick Douglass like? -8th Grade, Ascension School, Louisville, KY Lincoln and Douglass only met 3 times. The first time was in the summer of 1863. Douglass came to the White House to ask Lincoln to equalize the pay between black and white soldiers. The second meeting was about a year later, when Lincoln invited Douglass to the W.H. to tell him that he (the president) wanted Douglass to help devise a plan that would get as man
