The Issue of Slavery | Lincoln: "I, Too, Am a Kentuckian."

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Abraham Lincoln slavery Civil War Kentucky Cassius Clay Whig Party Liberty Party abolish slavery Lincoln President Lincoln American history Kentucky history political career politics

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The Issue of Slavery | Lincoln: "I, Too, Am a Kentuckian."

In 1849, Lincoln returns home to Springfield, Illinois. The Whig Party is divided over the issue of slavery, and Kentuckian Cassius Clay and others join the Liberty Party, which wants to abolish slavery.

NOTE: This resource contains outdated language onscreen [at 2:20 and 3:37] that is either representative of the time in which it was spoken or has evolved beyond its original use and is considered by modern standards of taste to be outdated.

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