Title: WHY DID ABRAHAM LINCOLN FREE THE SLAVES?
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Content: He was driven to educate himself. Lincoln was hard working, and didn't get much in pay. His father hired him out to split fence rails for a neighbor, Mrs. Miller. She couldn't pay him in money, but instead, paid him with cloth for trousers. Every four hundred rails earned him a yard of cloth for his jeans. That's how he got the nickname of "The Rail Splitter." Denton Offutt hired Lincoln to help work in his store when they returned from New Orleans and this was where Lincoln got his second nick-name. A man overpaid Lincoln four cents and was gone before Lincoln noticed the mistake. Before Lincoln went home that night he walked four miles to give the man back his four cents. Things like that eventually earned him the nickname of "Honest Abe," a nick-name he hated.