What is the background of Lincoln's abolition of slavery?

Born into a peasant family, Lincoln sympathized with the miserable experience of black serfs when he was young. Once, he saw a slave trader beating and insulting slaves in public. He whispered to his companion, "When I have a chance to attack this system one day, I will definitely smash it completely." After he became a politician in 1834, he made many speeches on black liberation, especially when he ran for vice president in 1856, clearly stating: "We will fight for freedom and abolish slavery".

Lincoln's idea of liberating slaves was strongly opposed by the serf owners in the south of the United States, but it was in the interests of the bourgeoisie in the north of the United States. They need to be free to recruit cheap labor. With the support of the northern bourgeoisie, Lincoln was elected as the sixteenth president of the United States on 1860. Slave owners of plantations in the southern United States established the Confederacy in February 186 1. April 12, attack to the north. The American Civil War began. Because the Lincoln government of the northern bourgeoisie was not fully prepared, the north lost at the beginning of the civil war and Washington almost fell. Driven by the masses, Lincoln took revolutionary measures in 1862. One of the most powerful measures was the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which stipulated that from 1863 65438+ 10 1, slaves in southern states would be "free forever" and "can join the army of the United States". These measures aroused the revolutionary enthusiasm of the broad masses of the people, especially the blacks. Soon, 500,000 to 750,000 workers joined the army, and 500,000 blacks in the south fled the plantation and launched guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, which contained the slave owners' 654.38+10,000 troops and brought the south to the brink of economic collapse. As a result, the situation turned sharply. 1on April 3, 865, Richmond, the capital of the south, was captured by the northern army. The civil war that lasted for four years ended in a complete victory in the north.