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Lincoln was not only a political moralist of the greatest degree, but he also had an inborn talent in the Machiavellian arrangement of power. This is a very extraordinary combination of characteristics. It gave the antislavery cause the type of strategic foresight that was all too frequently deficient in abolitionism.
Alerts In Effect. Lincoln on Slavery. Abraham Lincoln is often referred to as The Great Emancipator and yet, he did not publicly call for emancipation throughout his entire life. Lincoln began his public career by claiming that he was antislavery -- against slavery's expansion, but not calling for immediate emancipation.