Abraham Lincoln is responsible for one of the boldest and most far-reaching uses of executive powers in American history by his announcement that enslaved people would soon be "forever free" on ...

As early as 1849, Abraham ... did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary ...

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln enacted a plan to resettle 453 freed Black Americans to a Haitian island. Lincoln viewed colonization as a way to free Black Americans — but keep them apart from white ...

Donald Trump appeared on Fox News this morning, where, during a characteristically bizarre interview, he suggested Abraham Lincoln could ... it wanted to keep enslaving people.

In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln made the grand ... be it slave or free. Lincoln began his reply by quoting from an 1854 speech in Peoria.