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“Lincoln’s main thesis was that the Slavery issue had to be decided one way or the other and could no longer be evaded by compromise.” Comment in the light of his role in the American Civil War.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Origins of Modern Politics

Abraham Lincoln's career from the 1850s through the American Civil War (1861–65) was built on the conviction that decades of legislative compromise on slavery had exhausted their usefulness, and that the nation would have to choose decisively between freedom and bondage as its future condition.

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  • The Failure of Compromise by the 1850s
  • Lincoln's 1860 Candidacy and Southern Response
  • Wartime Conduct: From Union to Emancipation
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