But he also represented slaveholders, owned slaves himself and despised abolitionism (the word " slave" appears ambiguously in his little-sung third verse).
Lincoln and a friend, Dan Stone, were the only two legislators to submit a dissenting resolution which addressed not only abolitionism but the institution of slavery itself.
And I should get a much more robust response to that by walking through the narrative of abolitionism, walking through the economic arguments that existed against slavery all the way back to Adam Smith himself.