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Journalist Fred Kaplan describes Congressman Abraham Lincoln's early detest for slavery and says the former president favored a peaceful evolution to gradually end slavery, not a violent civil war.
While Abraham Lincoln is celebrated for his eloquent speeches, biographer Fred Kaplan says the former president was not known during his time as a great orator. His power was in the written word, not the delivery.