NJCWRT Presents: Abraham Lincoln's Most Difficult Decision

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Adult, Presentation

Age Group:

Adults
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No American president faced greater trials than Abraham Lincoln. Among the most pivotal were his decisions to go to war over Fort Sumter in 1861 and to issue the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Each carried enormous political and moral risks, especially with the loyalty of the slaveholding border states hanging in the balance, and abolitionism still deeply unpopular in a largely racist society.

But perhaps Lincoln’s most agonizing choice came in the summer of 1864, during a time of war fatigue, political pressure, and uncertain reelection prospects. This program, "I Should Be Damned in Time and in Eternity: The Black Soldier and Abraham Lincoln’s Most Difficult Decision," explores the moral and strategic dilemma Lincoln faced as he weighed the future of Black soldiers in the Union Army—and the future of the Union itself.

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