2007-04-03 16:00:31 · 10 answers · asked by trey 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"Those Presidents who owned slaves: George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; Andrew Jackson; John Tyler; James K. Polk; Zachary Taylor; Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant. Those that didn't: John Adams; John Quincy Adams; Martin Van Buren; William Harrison; Millard Fillmore; Franklin Pierce; James Buchanan; and Abraham Lincoln. "
2007-04-03 16:10:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No for two reasons. He did not live in a slave state, and two his family was dirt poor. The real question is, would he have owned a slave if he had the money to buy one?
BTW if he was so anti salvery why did he take so long to free the slaves? It was a poltical move to ensure that England who purchased mucho cotton for its textile mills would need to make a choice between the free North and the slave south.
Textiles is one of the reasons Britain started a war and took over India.
2007-04-03 23:08:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are speaking about President Abe Lincoln,,I will say no he was not a slave owner.His wife,Mary Todd Lincoln,was from a family who did own slaves.
2007-04-03 23:07:23 · answer #3 · answered by Mary H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A reminder to patois, Ulysses S. Grant did NOT own slaves at the time he was a General, nor at the time he was the President. Grant gave his slave, William Jones, his freedom in the late 1850s, rather than sell him for the much-needed cash - he and his family were farmers at the time.
2007-04-03 23:53:04 · answer #4 · answered by WMD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lincoln was not actually that big on freeing the slaves. If you read his personal journals he was as much a racist as anyone during that time period. The Civil War was all about politics, nothing pure or honorable, that was just political posturing.
2007-04-03 23:11:38 · answer #5 · answered by Ashlyn Rose 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not Abraham Lincoln, the President. General Grant, on the other hand, did have one and freed the man.
2007-04-03 23:07:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would he be a slave owner if he wanted to free slavery use ur brain dude
2007-04-03 23:04:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, he was from Kentucky and then moved to Illinois. Generally, slavery was not profitable the farther north you went. And, he was not an abolitionist either. But, he was a great man. And, I wish he had lived longer.
2007-04-03 23:33:06 · answer #8 · answered by 354gr 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes but as you know he freed them all
witch is weird because proper history showed yes he freed the slaves but he was a racist it is known that on many cases that yes he did like people of color but in many in public talks with people it is known that he used many racial slurs such as ****** and ****.
2007-04-03 23:15:15 · answer #9 · answered by Growth 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
from what I remember, he freed the slaves.
2007-04-03 23:04:23 · answer #10 · answered by VCP 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋