Assignment
Whether people viewed emancipation as morally right or not, it became increasingly clear throughout late 1862 into 1863 that no successful war for Union could not also be a war to destroy slavery. Yet there was much resistance in the North to the idea of emancipation - indeed, abolitionism in the most moral sense was probably a minority position. So how does the North, operating as it does in a white supremacist paradigm (we must accept that the vast preponderance of white Americans at the time bought into the Western notion of black inferiority - an idea common in Europe as well and bolstered by pseudoscientific ideas) come to embrace the idea of destroying slavery as a necessity in the war for Union?
Your essay should be divided into three parts:
1) First, it needs to first outline the opposition to full-on emancipation in the North - among the people, among the politicians, and in the mind of Lincoln and the people around him.
2) Secondly, it needs to show how battlefield outcomes affected the willingness of Union people to support the idea of emancipation.
3) Thirdly, it should explore the ways in which the Northern people came around to the idea of slavery being destroyed - and the many different shapes that this support took, from begrudging acceptance to wholehearted embrace.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
(1) The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
(2) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
(3) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.