Abraham Lincoln: The Greatest American Presidents

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I totally agree with Author Paludan, that Abraham Lincoln was one of the greatest American Presidents. It is impossible to picture a society, which would develop as a result of a Confederate victory. American has been a slave owning and slave trading nation for decades. Even our first President of the United States George Washington owned slaves. When he was in office he knew that slaves were wrong but it was a part of his life and he was one of the biggest slave owners in the colonies. He could have freed the slaves but instead, he adopted the conspiracy of silence with slaves. If the confederacy won the war, there is no telling how many years or decades it would have taken for them to abolish slavery, or even if it would have been abolished.