Exploring Lincoln's strategy to abolish slavery

(<a href="https://flickr.com/photos/jbparrott/" target="_blank" link-data="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000176-cd8c-dd4d-a7f6-fdbc82e80000","_type":"ae3387cc-b875-31b7-b82d-63fd8d758c20"},"cms.content.publishDate":1732133574847,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"00000192-d3d5-d08a-ad9a-f3f571c30000","_type":"6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc"},"cms.content.updateDate":1732133574847,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"00000192-d3d5-d08a-ad9a-f3f571c30000","_type":"6aa69ae1-35be-30dc-87e9-410da9e1cdcc"},"cms.directory.paths":[],"anchorable.showAnchor":false,"link":{"attributes":[],"cms.directory.paths":[],"linkText":"<bsp-line>Jack Parrott</bsp-line>","target":"NEW","attachSourceUrl":false,"url":"https://flickr.com/photos/jbparrott/","_id":"00000193-4b34-d145-a993-7bb4bbe80000","_type":"ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a"},"_id":"00000193-4b34-d145-a993-7bb4bbe70000","_type":"809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288"}">Jack Parrott</a> / Flickr )Freeing the slaves in America was not done with the stroke of a pen. President Abraham Lincoln and other anti-slavery politicians of the time used the constitution, which did not condemn slavery, in a very deliberate and strategic way to make their arguments.College of Southern Idaho professor Justin Vipperman will be exploring this topic at the Idaho State Archives in Boise; he joined Idaho Matters for a preview, along with Angie Davis from the Idaho State Archives.