For slavery, slavery was essential to the general trade.

In addition, they emphasized that slavery

existed in Africa. Slaveholders, who were Africans for the "big kids", argued that the slaves
accessed through them, civilization, as they converted the [force] to Christianity. Finally, reducing
them to slavery, they allowed them, they say, to escape the many tribal wars in Africa.
The Quakers, known in France under the name of the Society of Friends, were a group of
Protestants. In Pennsylvania, they were the first to oppose slavery on religious and moral grounds.
In 1688, they condemn the purchase and the keep slaves. In 1758, the Quakers vote anti-slavery
laws in Pennsylvania. In 1774, they prohibit practice trafficking, and in 1776 the prohibition to
slavery is established.
In 1777, slavery was banned in the states of North following: Vermont, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise led to the
recognition of slavery in the South when it was abolished in the North.

In the northern United States slavery was abolished for almost a century since the region is rich
with its industries. In the South, especially thanks to its rich cotton plantations, slavery continues. In
the 1830s, abolitionists camps begin to form. The Underground Railroad helps the Southern United
States slaves escape to the North and Canada. In 1854, when the Republican Party included the
abolition in its program.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to the United States Congress while exercising the legal profession.
From this period, his anti-slavery positions are apparent, but it is not in favor of voting rights for the
black population. He became known as an advocate of railway companies, but also by his speech
against the admission of new slave states in the EU in particular when it is in the senatorial elections
of 1858. The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854, which repeals the limits of the spread of slavery (Missouri
Compromise) presents Lincoln on the front of the political scene. Democratic Senator Stephen A.
Douglas proposed a referendum on the issue of slavery in the territories. In 1858, Lincoln delivered
a speech highlighting the danger of disunity of the country on the issue of slavery. His eloquence
made him known to the general public.

Lincoln was chosen by the Republicans for the presidential election of 1860. He was elected
November 6, 1860 and became the 16th US president with 39.9% of the vote, with the divisions
within the Democratic Party. It thus beats other candidates who were Stephen A. Douglas (29.5%),
John C. Breckenridge (18.1%) and John C. Bell (12.5%).

During the civil war, a former slave Frederick Douglass insisted in speeches and editorials in
various newspapers on the idea that the purpose of the war was to be the abolition of slavery and
that blacks should be allowed to join the Union Army. December 31, 1862, President Lincoln issued
the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves located in places outside the Union troops
were free. Congress authorized the following year blacks to enlist in the Union Army.

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln applies to all US abolition of slavery after the Civil War of
1861 to 1865, which opposed the North abolition of slavery in the South, the 13th Amendment with
the Constitution.