Abraham Lincoln's Personal Feelings and Views about Slavery as they developed throughout his life

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     Lincoln's Feelings about Slavery Learning Activities

As expressed through his words and writings throughout his life

WELCOME TO LEARNING LINCOLN ON-LINE

By Howard Taylor

This Activity is a supplement to Learning Lincoln On-Line, Chapter One (Slavery)

ACTIVITIES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO USE FOR THIS THEME ARE:

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, was our 16th President, and one of the few Presidents born in a log cabin, and was not college educated.  His zeal for reading, writing and learning in-general motivated him to leave us with a wealth of reading material, much by his own personal hand.  These actual primary sources will be used in this activity.

The purpose of this online activity is to study how Abraham Lincoln developed his hatred of slavery, and at the same time did not become a radical abolitionist.  In fact, some of Abraham Lincoln's thoughts about what to do about slavery, how to deal with freed slaves, equality of slaves to whites will reveal his evolution of thought from being a very young boy to the 55 year old President about to die.  A variety of readings will be provided from the hot list.  A class could be divided up into study groups to cover a "reading" passage.  The readings will be actual words or writings of Abraham Lincoln.  Students will work with questions and a variety of answer-response methods in this activity.  A hotlist of online resources will be provided.  There will be a teacher direction page and a student direction page to help you organize a lesson.The Learning Activity Sections:

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