the Declaration’s central thesis was not just political but moral and economic as well. Part of Lincoln’s hatred for slavery stemmed from his belief that it was unjust to wring bread “from the sweat of other men’s faces.”
Embracing his family’s Calvinist roots, Lincoln came to believe that human beings are agents of Divine Will, unable to act outside of it and always, if perhaps unconsciously, working towards God’s purposes.
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