Lincoln believed that if he didn't pass the amendment, then more people from the south would be able to vote to keep slavery. This was why he needed it passed before the war was over. As the movie progresses you can see that he becomes personally passionate about ending slavery. This also comes across in the letters he wrote. In the movie, many people had lots of different opinions. There was no clear-cut way to what everyone believed because they thought that the amendment should or shouldn't pass based on reasons that might not even have anything to do with race. This is what complicated arguments. One of the reasons that people did not want to end slavery was because they were afraid of what would happen if those many slaves were freed: they would lose their power.
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