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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865), known as “Honest Abe” and “The Rail Splitter of the Great Emancipator” was born in Hodgenville, KY to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln in a one-room log cabin built by his father. Growing up on the frontier gave Lincoln certain strengths such as self-reliance, patience and understanding. Survival itself demanded them. No one can tell a completely “true” story of any piece of the past. In the case of Abraham Lincoln, it …

…educate the former slave. Lincoln’s attitude toward the returning states had been moderate; he had already been standing between the vindictive Radical Republicans and the vanquished. That Lincoln could have made better headway than Andrew Johnson is conceivable but doubtful. It is really futile to speculate what he might have done, but it is not frivolous to guess that he purposely shaped his heroic image to fit a nation longing for unity and greatness.