But he also represented slaveholders, owned slaves himself and despised abolitionism (the word " slave" appears ambiguously in his little-sung third verse).
Lincoln and a friend, Dan Stone, were the only two legislators to submit a dissenting resolution which addressed not only abolitionism but the institution of slavery itself.
And I should get a much more robust response to that by walking through the narrative of abolitionism, walking through the economic arguments that existed against slavery all the way back to Adam Smith himself.
But I began to tutor myself in African history, the history of the great empires of Africa, the movements of peoples, the slave trade, the, you know, the various struggles for liberation, abolitionism and so on.
One of the extraordinary things about this massacre is that it was masterminded by a man of the cloth and a guy who was on the right side of history when it came to the cause of abolition, abolitionism.