Paraphrase Practice

"Lincoln believed slavery was immoral, but he also considered the 13th Amendment a masterstroke in cutting away the financial foundations of the Confederacy. I've rarely been more aware than during Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" that Abraham Lincoln was a plain-spoken, practical, down-to-earth man from the farmlands of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. He had less than a year of formal education and taught himself through his hungry reading of great books."

-Roger Ebert's Lincoln Movie Review

Lincoln was supporting and thought of the idea of slavery being an overall wrong, or inhumane, way through the ideas of personal standards in a consciousness of a human. He thought the 13th Amendment to be a brilliant way of chipping at the economic or money base ground point of the Confederacy. Like many Steven Spielberg very conscious in seeing how simple, blunt, realistic, and focused male of the countryside of Kentucky, Indian, and Illinois. This man barely had a year of stately teachings but instead learned for himself through his unquenchable thirst of knowledge through readings.