Sentences with phrase «eventual abolition of slavery»

None of what Lincoln achieved — the eventual abolition of slavery, the preservation of the Union — would have happened had Lincoln not thought himself constitutionally authorizedto resist the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott; constitutionally obligated, by his oath, to resist secession; and constitutionally empowered, as commander in chief, to fight the enemy with the full powers at his disposal, which included military force, blockade, suspension of habeas corpus, arrest and detention, seizure of enemy property, and emancipation of Southern slaves.

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In his Summary View of the Rights of British America of 1774 Jefferson had called for the «abolition of domestic slavery» and the eventual «enfranchisement of the slaves we have.