Sorry. Lincoln was amoral. He had zero regard for anyone's rights. All he wanted was revenue to boost his Northern industrialist/banker backers. He was the highest paid attorney in the world, and what would be considered a lobbyist today. He believed in nothing but swindling by eloquent oratory. No one has ever been better. He had no qualms against slavery, and said so many times. He had to understand the wealth of cotton required a lot of labor, performed by slaves at that time. He pretended to free them as a desperate face saving act that was mocked relentlessly at the time for the cynical ploy it plainly was. The war was a total failure for Abe's plans. It was economic disaster for the North and northerners, never on board, were fed up with it. The emancipation proclamation infuriated them. His murder softened their hearts a little and hostility toward the South began to build into the excesses of Reconstruction. It was almost impossible to produce cotton after the war and America lost that lucrative trade to Egypt and elsewhere. Share cropping came about as a work around but was very ineffective. In too many cases the tenants weren't capable or motivated enough to do their share. Africans and women were exempted from the "equal" consideration. Moreover, only male land owners over age 21 were allowed to vote. Imagine? School learnin' had to be dumbed way down to make slavery the issue and Lincoln the compassionate martyr who died saving his country.
