Lincoln's Greatest Speech Americans Have Never Heard. ... President Abraham Lincoln in his study in the 1860s. ... Among that sixteen were several of the most noted anti-slavery men of those times ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — After 167 years, President Abraham Lincoln has returned to the park where he gave his only public speech in the state of Michigan. Unveiled at the same time, 2 p.m., place ...

Anti-Slavery Principles and President Lincoln. Share full article. May 21, 1864. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 21, 1864, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

Many local residents have heard something about Abraham Lincoln’s so-called “Lost Speech,” delivered in downtown Bloomington on May 29, 1856. Yet most folks don’t know the story about the ...

Abraham Lincoln Bronson Park Statue Kalamazoo Speech 1856 Slavery Unveiling. KALAMAZOO, ... On Aug. 27, 1856, Abraham Lincoln delivered a speech against the expansion of slavery in the United States.

BLOOMINGTON — Almost 170 years after Abraham Lincoln delivered an impassioned speech against slavery at a political gathering in downtown Bloomington, a new mural within sight of the spot now ...

Lincoln’s preliminary proclamation, dated Sept. 22, 1862, stated that all persons held as slaves in Confederate states “shall be then, henceforward, and forever free.” ...

Lincoln began his reply by quoting from an 1854 speech in Peoria. He had favored freeing all the slaves and deporting them to Liberia but realized “its sudden execution is impossible.

The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain for a ...

The speech was part of what was called the “Anti-Nebraska Convention,” a political gathering meant to nominate candidates opposed to the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 introduced by ...