Lincoln Pride And Prejudice Analysis
Lincoln’s pure ability to distinguish an individual’s circumstance to better understand their behavior, however bad, are not that of a prejudice man. For instance regarding the issue of slavery, Lincoln did not hate the South, he hated the institution of slavery in itself. Lincoln would state that the people of the south, “are just what we would be in their situation” and also believed that the vast majority of southern whites were rational men that bared human sympathies and when it became necessary they would abolish slavery on their own. Lincoln was a man of great principle and inclination to see situations from both sides of the coin, his humanitarian views were said to have surpassed his time.