Lincoln Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Emancipation American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists

American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists:

Conscience of the Nation

Updated April 4, 2021

l to r: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips

Lincoln Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Emancipation

Speech at Bloomington, Illinois, September 26, 1854

Speech at Peoria, Illinois, October 16, 1854

Letter to Joshua Speed, August 24, 1855

"House Divided" Speech, Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858

Speech at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860

Speech at Hartford, Connecticut, March 5, 1860

Speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860

First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

Message to Congress, March 6, 1862

Message to Congress, April 16, 1862

Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862

Reply to Emancipation Memorial, September 13, 1862

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862

Reply to Eliza P. Gurney, October 26, 1862

State of the Union Message, December 1, 1862

Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863

Letter to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864

Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865