If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website.
If you're behind a web filter, please make sure that the domains *.kastatic.org and *.kasandbox.org are unblocked.
To log in and use all the features of Khan Academy, please enable JavaScript in your browser.
“The members have met their constituents and learned of marvellous conversions to the wisdom of emancipation . . . That to proclaim emancipation would secure the sympathy of Europe and the whole civilized world, which now saw no other reason for the strife than national pride and ambition, an unwillingness to abridge our domain and power. No other step would be so potent to prevent foreign intervention.”
-Source: President Abraham Lincoln, Reply to Emancipation Memorial Presented by Chicago Christians of All Denominations, 1862