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Why the Speech is Important - The importance of the Gettysburg Address is partly due to the broad way in which Lincoln addressed the situation. Learn about the Gettysburg Address importance.
Lincoln's importance in history wasn't as an abolitionist thinker--he did, indeed, hold backward ideas about race compared to other opponents of slavery--or as an organizer for the cause, but in the role he played in a specific historical situation.