Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Moment of Crisis, Part 4, 1958 March 2
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Moment of Crisis, Part 4, 1958 March 2
This installment of Moment of Crisis focuses on Abraham Lincoln. Thurman shares an excerpt from President Lincoln’s memoir that speaks to the personal crisis he faced as he grappled with whether slaves should be freed in the interest of saving the Union. Lincoln, heavily influenced by the founding fathers, believed that slavery was a violation of the mind, spirit, and will of the founding fathers. Still, those who embraced slavery and those in opposition of slavery understood that lives would be lost should the country go to war. The implications if emancipation as it relates to the Confederacy are woven into this lecture as well.
Part of the Collection, Moment of Crisis (1958, Marsh Chapel, Boston University, Boston, MA)
Tags: America, choice, crisis, slavery
Description by ShaCarolyn Halyard
Recorded in Marsh Chapel, Boston University, Boston, Massachussetts
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Moment of Crisis, Part 4, 1958 March 2,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/998.
View all episodes
By Howard Thurman (Uploaded by Duncan Hamra)This installment of Moment of Crisis focuses on Abraham Lincoln. Thurman shares an excerpt from President Lincoln’s memoir that speaks to the personal crisis he faced as he grappled with whether slaves should be freed in the interest of saving the Union. Lincoln, heavily influenced by the founding fathers, believed that slavery was a violation of the mind, spirit, and will of the founding fathers. Still, those who embraced slavery and those in opposition of slavery understood that lives would be lost should the country go to war. The implications if emancipation as it relates to the Confederacy are woven into this lecture as well.
Part of the Collection, Moment of Crisis (1958, Marsh Chapel, Boston University, Boston, MA)
Tags: America, choice, crisis, slavery
Description by ShaCarolyn Halyard
Recorded in Marsh Chapel, Boston University, Boston, Massachussetts
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Moment of Crisis, Part 4, 1958 March 2,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/998.