What are some negative attitudes that Abraham Lincoln had toward African Americans?

Question

I'm doing a paper for African American Studies, and I need to know some negative things about Lincoln during this time period.

I know, it is not my topic so don't yell at me about it please. lol

Answer 1

One example of such a negative attitude was in....surprise...the Emancipation Proclamation.  (Which freed the slaves.)  It was done in the middle of the Civil War.

At the time, there were 3 groups of states:  1)Free (no slavery exists, 2)South, and 3)'Other' slave states, on the North/South border - eg, Kentucky - that chose to fight on the

Union's side.

The Emancipation Proclamation did three things: Free all slaves in the free states (which freed no one), officially free all

slaves in the South (which freed no one - as Lincoln had no power here), but ALLOWED SLAVERY in the 'Other' slave states.

In short, Lincoln ended slavery where he couldn't, but allowed slavery wherever he could.

Answer 2

You do need to remember that Lincoln lived in a very different time; so don't be too critical.  This information may be taken out of context.  See below.

Answer 3

Like most northern men of this period, he probably considered coloreds (the slang term of that era) to be uneducated and crude.  He probably didn't apply that to all of them, though, because he probably met some who were educated.  

One of the reasons Lincoln opposed ending slavery out right is he didn't know what would happen to all those people who were suddenly free.  Would they come north?  Who would employ them?  How would they get fed?   There were nearly three million slaves in the south and the north could not absorb that many.  

It came down to are they better off where they are or being free and starving?  

Individual colored people were not his problem.  The mass of them were.

Answer 4

well, at first he did not want to end slavery , he wrote this . to help in the fight he decide to free the enslave to fight the southern owners. Confederates.