Critical Thinking
Directions: Read the words of Abraham Lincoln below. Under the quote, write your opinion of
what he said. Explain what you think he meant. Give specific details or examples to support

During a debate about whether Kansas should be a free state or a slave state, Lincoln
said:
"It is said that the slaveholder has the same political right to take his Negroes to Kansas that a
freeman has to take his hogs or his horses. This would be true if Negroes were property in the
same sense that hogs and horses are. But is this the case? It is notoriously not so."