actually Lincoln said this, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union." and the E.P. ONLY freed slaves in states of rebellion. Not in the border states where he actully had control. The E.P. also forbade freeing slaves in the New Orleans area because many blacks there owned slaves.
Here's an idea, everyone go Google, Slave Ship Owners, under images and scroll. Everyone will see, White Americans never enslaved anyone in America and were just blamed, for Centuries, by the ACTUAL slave owners, who've also been lying to the people they enslaved for Centuries. You need to realize, (both races) you were both lied to, turned against each other and this was done by design, so both of you wouldn't discover that you're both being lied to and the same people have committed atrocities, against both of your people. They're terrified (the real slave owners) of everyone waking up and exposing them, in a united fashion, that they can't control or lie about.
@@mikebryant8507 Indeed, which is why as a black man I'm in chains, and the nation is completely divided, and America is still trying to become a superpower.... oh, wait....
We now remember President Lincoln for the rightness of what he did. And we remember John Wilkes Booth, not for the reasons he wished, but for the wrongness of what he did. He killed a servant of God, whom he had appointed to destroy the institution of slavery.
Lincoln is a hero for abolishing slavery! If only Lincoln could see how much we love him for it. I for one am so glad he stopped slavery so that we people today don’t become like these wicked southerners and plantation owners.
@prateeksharma6706 more seriously the reason I don't like me has nothing with at on black but because he lies he said all white are better the blacks and he never wanted slavery to end emancipation proclamation said he didn't want slavery to end.
@@lordsams he was a politican the things like race theory were wode spread at that time he couldn't isolate himself by preaching some revolutionary ideas at the time U also should remember that he was not a very popular leader at the time he was elected so he had to place a balancing act while making sure he gets rid of slavery
Wow that was a powerful speech, and masterly made clip. I wished we still sought to be the best we can be, and know that it is a journey, it is a social justice matter, and it is one that affect us all. Or should.
He was a great man to a select group of people. To the rest of the country, he let animals off their leashes and now we're all suffering the consequences
I like how people think because he couldn’t portray himself to the world as John Brown did that he wasn’t an abolitionist. He was a POLITICIAN and did what was necessary, and when it was over, slavery was abolished from the land for all time.
Sainthood huh? As the late longtime editor of Ebony magazine, Lerone Bennett, Jr. said in his book "Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream“, "Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom . . . are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him . . . with rare exceptions, you can’t believe what any major Lincoln scholar tells you about Abraham Lincoln and race.” It seems some of you folks that engage in Lincoln idolatry are in a cult😲
@@rayr5950he is certainly revered for his selflessness, amongst a myriad of other fine qualities. He was a martyr as well, and people have gotten carried away. He wasn't done and people can only romanticize of what could have been...no president has been held in such high esteem since, or else we'd be talking about them instead. It would certainly take a saint to turn around the country the way it is now (for the better), the way he did back then.
Lincoln failed to stop a massacre of the American people and the destruction of countless beautiful properties. I hope you people do understand that history has been manipulated, just like today's news. Lincoln was the deadliest American president in history. That's a fact ! Sainthood is a little far-fetched.
Let's just listen to what is being said, for the sake of history: 0:22 "He's not asking for the consent of the people; he's not asking for conversation; he's not asking for anything gradual."
An excellent video. Even Washington knew slavery was wrong. But the value of his property prevented him from doing anything until he was on his deathbed.
When Lincoln was shot and he lay dead on the bed, Edwin Stanton said : "There lies the greatest ruler of men the world has ever seen". This shows the character of Lincoln who rose from abject poverty to become probably the greatest of all the Presidents of USA How many agree?
Actually Lincoln had plans for the former slaves ranging from sending them back to Africa to creating a territory for them. He had no intention of ever allowing them to roam free in society, as he knew they can never function in a civil society. The fourteenth amendment giving citizenship to blacks was written as more punishment to the south for killing Lincoln.
He actually did not abolish slavery in the Union but only in the territories reclaimed by force of arms in the CSA. Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland remained slave states.
@@ajmari9585 What the other person most likely meant was that the Emancipation proclamation didn't free anyone. Check it out. Biggest fraud ever. Check out the Corwin Agreement. You'll be surprised at what you find.
@@THEBILLYSOLSON I didn’t need to watch the video to make my comment which was accurate. The 13th wasn’t even ratified until Andrew Johnson was President. Now, you go back to it and don’t forget your snacks.
@@ajmari9585 It only abolished slavery of citizens, most slaves were not considered citizens Lincoln never included them as citizens the 14th fixed that. He is very out spoken in his debates and letters to friends his views on slavery and anyone other than the people of white skin color. Lincoln was not an abolitionist. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. - Abraham Lincoln in a letter to Horace Greeley Dated Friday the 22nd of August 1862, it was military strategy, he cared only for the union. These are not the words of an abolitionist.
To abolish something means to be completely rid of it. Slavery is still written as law in the United States Constitution 13th Amendment. Only the conditions for slavery has changed. (Search: 13th Amendment ) Just another piece of their puzzle.
Right. And the people incarcerated in prison carry absolutely none of the responsibility for their being there? Nearly all prison labor is now paid and is regulated by Constitutional statutes and case law regarding cruel and unusual punishment. The whole "prison slavery" conversation is a non-starter. If you want to have it, try having it with the Democrat Party who treats their districts like a vote harvesting plantation.
I suspect had he lived many of those issues of today would’ve been mitigated from 1865-1868. Lincoln would have not allowed reconstruction to have taken place as it did, and would’ve been fair minded to all.
The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t actually free all enslaved people. Since Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as a military measure, it didn’t apply to border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, all of which were loyal to the Union. Missouri actually had two competing governments; one loyal to, and recognized by the Union, and one loyal to the Confederacy. Lincoln also exempted selected areas of the Confederacy that had already come under Union control in hopes of gaining the loyalty of white people in those states. In practice, then, the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t immediately free a single enslaved person, as the only places it applied were places where the federal government had no control-the Southern states currently fighting against the Union.
He encouraged emancipation in the border states you should know that Some of them did do abolition the others were free when the 13th amendment was ratified
actually Lincoln said this, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union." and the E.P. ONLY freed slaves in states of rebellion. Not in the border states where he actully had control. The E.P. also forbade freeing slaves in the New Orleans area because many blacks there owned slaves.
What he did help the years later for when Dr Martin luther king Jr could start doing it again in a different way from Lincoln that a slave could never do at the time even if king did everything himself
ALL OF YALL NEED TO LEARN AMERICAN HISTORY, 99 percent of our country has no clue what the 13th amendment is. Yet we allow them to take the 1st, then try for the 2nd, y’all don’t think the 13th is next ?!?!?!
Lincoln did very little lined his own pockets blacks could not go to white owned shops in 1960s had black white toilets back then so in a way slavery did not stop until the 1960s just because they abolished it earlier did not mean that blacks had much more rights etc all it meant was that they were freemen who were still treated very badly
You all put an image of the 13th amendment in it's entirety up and then acted like it didn't say slavery is abolished... EXCEPT for prisoners duly convicted.
@@PDPresents I suggest you get some better, more logical arguments. Most people who are even in the criminal justice system to begin with have some level of guilt. If they've been convicted the chance they actually deserve their punishment goes way up. You also cannot be imprisoned for something as minor as jaywalking. So stop. You're not convincing anyone.
@@robertlombardo8437 good job avoiding the fact. A 5th grade reading level would solve any confusion. A cursory understanding of the history of convict leasing would probably lend some enlightenment. But you're not trying to consider that are you?
I like Obama in that he was a person who tried though I do not agree with all policies he had... I was surprised Obama was featured in speaking in this.
13th Amendment to USA Constitution = "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." = SLAVERY = cannabis-prohibition so, no, slavery in usa, was NOT abolished.
no, if, but, actually Lincoln said this, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union." and the E.P. ONLY freed slaves in states of rebellion. Not in the border states where he actully had control. The E.P. also forbade freeing slaves in the New Orleans area because many blacks there owned slaves.
Ahh yesss from the plantations to the prison thanks to the 2nd part of the amendment. Mass arrests, prison for profit. That's how you become the most imprisoned nation on earth! 'Merica! 🇺🇲😂
Obama undid so much of this country's racial progress and destroyed our national identity in just two terms. He is antithetical to Abraham Lincoln. And his third term is even worse. FJB.
Hey @Historychannel how long do you think it will take to rewrite history with the truth this go around I believe more people know the true history now!
“My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all slaves I would do it; and if I could save it be freeing some and leaving others alone I would do that.” - Abraham Lincoln
He was a politician. What else is new? I've never been in a black home with a picture of Lincoln on the wall. I think that might've been a Midwest or Northeast thing.
Yet the south succeeded because the elites believed Lincoln and the abolitionist north would be a threat to their "slave power", and they were correct. He also abolished slavery so actions speak louder than words everyday. Stop being a confederate apologist.
That quote is incomplete, at the end he states how committed he is to abolition, what you are doing there is deliberately delivering a half true to push a point.
In reality, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution were unnecessary if the institutional operators of the United States would only apply the Bill of Rights to everyone and internally addressed Thomas Jefferson‘s hypocrisy when he wrote “all men are created equal“ while simultaneously owning and procreating with enslaved Africans, whom he had no intention of extending full rights of citizenship to further, when Phyllis Wheatley showed the collective potential of Afro-Americans, by composing pros in both Greek and Latin, Jefferson and other founding fathers dismissed her as an anomaly, because enslaved Africans were so essential to the American economy.
Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite. He owns 600 slaves. They had 50+ years to abolish slavery and no one did anything not the founders era not the 1st post founders era, it wasn’t until the Lincoln era where it became no negotiations. They kept talking about it eventually dying out but yet it never did so Lincoln had to put the hammer down. Otherwise no one would have the courage to stop it at once and for all. So yes, all 3 amendments were necessary.
I am so bummed I really want to watch this documentary in full. I have the history channel through cable but I am sick and bedridden so I watch from the bedroom on roku but even if I have the history channel on cable I have to spend more money a month to use the history roku channel. I don’t have the money to do that. It isn’t right. If I pay for cable I should have full access to the history channel on roku! I do with TCM! History should be free to begin with! If I was going to pay more for anything it would be to have full access to PBS. Even though I have cable I again have to get PBS plus. It’s a rip off but at least I am supporting public broadcasting.
Probably went through French fiction that showed one on specific occasions reminds the slaves of what they are even if its “telling” them that theyre not slaves anymore.
Freedom means that you as a people needs no one's approval to self-government. We must have their approval at some point for whatever we try to do............ that as a people isn't being free.
If time machines were invented. I would bring a group of people to save Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John Kennedy from their unfortunate fate of assassination. It's a shame to see that has to be what their more remembered for than their work in office. As well as other American icons such as Martin Luther King Jr.
Unfortunately it probably wouldn't save him mate, it's widely thought by many that Abraham Lincoln had marfan's syndrome. Connective tissue disorder, aorta blows out. Most of my immediate Family has marfan's, I can definitely see it in him.
@@pascalswager9100 while I agree on that and knowing Abraham's son Willlliam Wlllace passed away from typhoid and his other son Tad Lincoln was Tuberculosis, a pleuristic attack, pneumonia, or congestive heart failure. But I was referring to the other presidents as well in my comment. You might as well list what both of the Roosevelt's went through while in office. Especially Theodore Roosevelt when he wad Shor prior to making a speech while in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "A bullet can't stop the bull moose."
@@BrandonHanson To be fair I'm not up on American history as I am Australian, definitely know a lot about marfan's though so that's all I was commenting on. Have a good one.
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on equal terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior. And I as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." -a. lincoln 4th debate with Stephen Douglas charleston, illinois. Sept. 18, 1858 So much for the greatest american president. 😆
He didn't end slavery. The 13th Amendment did, eight months after his passing. Check out the Corwin Agreement and the Morill Act. If the South had returned to the Union and ratified, as the Northern States had done, the Corwin Agreement it would have become the 13th Amendment and slavery would be legal today. Unless a state ended it themselves.
The Corwin amendment was passed in Congress but it was ever ratified by the states, and it was drop out of the constitution. The Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment did free the slaves in America. 13 Amendment section 1 Neither slaves nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crimes whereof the party shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2 Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. What does the Morill Act have to do with ending slavery in America?
"If all earthly power were given me, I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia,-to their own native land." Abraham Lincoln Lincoln is quoted several times saying he wanted to send them back to Africa mainly Liberia or Central or South America. "If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation" Abraham Lincoln
@@mikebyrd8278 Why is that unfortunate though. These people were born and grew up in America. They would be confused and upset to move back. The result would be mass chaos.
@@megaladon5203 Lincoln said we would never truly get along and he was right. It would not have been as chaotic back then. Many of them had not been here nearly as long
@@mikebyrd8278 Woah, first of all there’s no us vs them. We’re all Americans and even somebody looks different then you, they should be treated as such. America’s strength is it’s diversity. We started as a country of immigrants and we are unique in that aspect today. The issue is those who try to create divides and hate.
This is a quote from the tyrant Lincoln during the fourth debate with Douglas on Sept. 18, 1858 in Charleston, Illinois. "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
We just exchanged one form of Slavery for another.. We just use the guise of calling them "job or rehab programs" to make ourselves feel better about it. Then pay them the equivalent of someone who worked for min wage in 60's or 70's if they are lucky. Some don't even break 20 cents.
In the Proclamation itself, made public on September 17, Lincoln repeated his desire to compensate slaveholders within the Union for the emancipation of their slaves, and to promote colonization. However, this was only a proposal; the President made no attempt to free the slaves in the four slave states that had remained in the Union, nor in those parts of the Confederacy that were under Union control. The only slaves whom he unilaterally declared free were those in territory controlled by the Confederates, and who were therefore entirely beyond his power to free. Moreover, Lincoln promised the states of the Confederacy that their practice of slavery would remain unmolested if they stopped their “rebellion” within 100 days.
Bruh what are you talking about he encouraged the border states to abolish slavery and some did. The rest where libérated with the 13th amendment what are you trying to do
