The Real Abraham Lincoln: His Story & Face Brought to Life with Motion and Color | Royalty Now

[Music] hello everyone and welcome back to royalty now where we recreate famous figures from the past and talk about their history today we're talking about the great emancipator abraham lincoln one of the most important men in modern history we'll talk about his life his struggles with mental health and the war that would lead him to the decision that would change millions of lives forever at the end becca will talk about what he looked like and reveal her recreations so let's go ahead and get started [Music] abraham lincoln was born in kentucky on february 12 1809 to thomas and nancy lincoln thomas who would later be described by abraham lincoln as a drifter was a stern and demanding man who had led a harsh life he couldn't read or write and believed anything but an honest trade was an enormous waste of time nancy was very different she was mild yet strong described by lincoln's neighbors as superior to thomas she taught lincoln his abcs at a young age and is credited for giving lincoln the sweetness and patience he would later be known for they would move to indiana when abraham was seven years old thomas was adamant that abraham do most of the manual work needed to clear the land abraham would later state that his childhood on the farm was like being in a constant fight with trees logs and grubs a school opened up nearby nancy was able to convince thomas to let abraham and his sister sarah attend lincoln realized pretty quickly that he loved to read and he hated working on the farm unfortunately for abraham circumstances would keep him out of school for most of his young life when abraham was nine years old his mother nancy would die unexpectedly of milk sickness this would mark the first of many tragedies in lincoln's life and later descriptions of lincoln being melancholy all begin here with the death of his mother lincoln's father became quickly overwhelmed with keeping up the farm and caring for his children not long after the death of his wife thomas left them for at least six months even sarah survived off barely anything but dried berries nancy had stored before her death when thomas finally returned in december of 1819 he was accompanied by his new wife sally bush when abram saw them he ran towards them crying right past his father to the woman he had never met before sally bush would treat abraham as her own and begin to heal the wound that his mother's death had left him she's credited for giving abe his famous sense of humor and always made sure to find different books for abraham to read after he had finished his chores abraham would later say that his stepmother had been his best friend in this world and that no son could love a mother more than he loved her lincoln would forever refer to sally as mama by the time lincoln turned 18 he had already grown to his famous height six foot four and impressively lanky his teenage years had been spent mostly working for his father and although he had barely attended school he was always reading aesop's fables robinson crusoe the life of washington newspapers song books spelling books the bible lincoln began to tell stories and sermons to anyone that would listen but it was around this time that the second tragedy of his life struck just before his 19th birthday sarah his older sister his caretaker during those long six months alone died in childbirth lincoln spoke very little about his sister during his life but according to dennis hanks lincoln's cousin and good friend the loss of his sister was devastating she had been his only connection to his mother and now they were both gone in an attempt to distract himself he would go down to louisiana with his best friend alan but when they arrived they were met with a slave presence they had never seen before it was here that lincoln saw his first slave auction the evil that his parents had been so adamantly against was right in front of his eyes for the first time a husband and a wife a mother and her child sold separately never to see each other again if slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong abraham lincoln when lincoln returned home he decided it was time for him to strike out on his own at the age of 22 he moved to new salem illinois and began his new life during his first year he'd find work at a general store and join the local debate club it was here that people first noticed abe's incredible talent at public speaking not long after abraham met a woman named dan rutledge they'd become close friends and then fell in love they agreed that they would get married but only after anne finished her studies soon enough the people of new salem impressed with abe's intelligence and wit began to encourage abe to get into politics in 1832 he would run for state office for the first time and although he lost 277 out of the 300 votes cast in new salem were for lincoln in 1834 abraham would try again only this time he won he was officially an illinois state congressman he was studying to become a lawyer and in no time anne would be finished with school and they would finally be able to get married but tragedy seemed to follow lincoln everywhere he went in 1835 ann rutledge finished with her schooling finally returned to new salem but not long after her arrival a wave of typhoid hit the town on august 25th 1835 and died at the age of 22. i am now the most miserable man living if what i feel were equally distributed to the whole human family there would not be one cheerful face on the earth whether i shall ever be better i i cannot tell i awfully forbade i shall not but to remain as i am is impossible i must die or be better it appears to me abraham decided he would get better it may have simply been time or maybe it was just lincoln completely diving into his work but in 1836 abraham was able to pass the illinois bar completing his goal of becoming a lawyer and he also won re-election by 1843 he had become a leader of the newly formed whit party and decided that it might be time to finally settle down after a long courtship lincoln would marry a woman named mary todd within a year they would have a baby boy and lincoln would open up his own law practice after the failed presidential campaign of his political idol henry clay and the following annexation of texas as a slave state lincoln realized that the country was at a pivotal moment the balance of slave states to free states was even and the next few years would decide which direction the country went he would begin to speak publicly against slavery passionately speaking on the house floor and although he wasn't calling for slavery's full abolishment in the united states just yet he co-wrote a bill to abolish slavery outright in washington dc unfortunately for lincoln these radical views would backfire he would lose support from his voters and soon his party had divided itself over the issue of slavery after the whig party won the 1848 presidential election it was clear that lincoln was being etched out [Music] at the age of 40 lincoln found himself without a party and realized that his political career was most likely over over the next five years the debate over slavery became more and more hostile years of compromise between the north and south only delayed the issue lincoln had spent these years mostly focusing on his law practice and more recently was mourning the loss of his second son but in 1854 a man named stephen a douglas proposed a bill called the kansas nebraska act the act would allow those states to decide for themselves whether they wanted to be free or owned slaves the idea was that letting the people handle the issue themselves would take it out of political hands but this could not have been further from what happened it would instead lead to what is now called bleeding kansas anti-and pro-slavery settlers began a state-level civil war over kansas election fraud assault and the political killing of more than a hundred men would raise tensions over the issue of slavery to a boiling point after years away from political life lincoln's outrage at the idea of letting the union fall to the will of slave-owning states is what finally brought him out of hiding in one of his first speeches back lincoln would calmly vent that outrage nearly 80 years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration that for some men to enslave others is a sacred rite of self-government these principles cannot stand together and whoever holds to one must despise the other in 1858 lincoln would run as a republican for the u.s senate against stephen a douglas the very man who had brought him back into politics over the course of seven debates that author allen c guelzo calls the debates that defined america douglas and lincoln would speak on slavery morality the constitution and what they would do to solve the problem that lincoln thought was destroying the nation a house divided against itself cannot stand i believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and have free i do not expect the union to be dissolved i do not expect the house to fall but i do expect it will cease to be divided it will become all one thing or all the other citizens from all over the midwest would travel by train to see the debates anyone who missed it in person was able to read the transcript the next day lincoln and douglas knew they were speaking to the whole nation when the votes came in on election day lincoln had won the popular vote by over 24 000 ballots but he lost in the electoral college giving douglas the seat in the senate lincoln would take the loss bitterly but the widespread media coverage of the event and lincoln's stellar performance propelled him into the national spotlight it wasn't long before rumors began to swirl of his potential nomination for president lincoln would begin campaigning around the nation people who had never seen him in person before would catch their first glimpse and be caught totally by surprise in an ill-fitted suit with disheveled hair and bags under his eyes lincoln would time and time again deliver perfectly reasoned intelligent and witty speeches to the amazement of the crowd for the first 10 minutes i couldn't believe the way he looked the way he sounded his accent but after those 10 minutes the flash of his eyes the ease of his presentation overcame all doubts and i was enraptured [Music] his speeches would begin to spread in newspapers and pamphlets all over the north and within months he was the front-runner for the presidency he had gone to win the 1860 presidential election a little over a month later before he was even sworn in south carolina would secede from the nation in an attempt by congress to stop the secession crisis the crittenden compromise was conceived the proposal included six constitutional amendments that would make slavery a permanent part of the constitution if these had passed there would forever be a constitutional right to be a slave owner lincoln said he would rather suffer death than agreed to the outrageous proposal by the time lincoln was inaugurated on march 4th 1861 six more southern states had joined south carolina by leaving the union when confederate shots were fired at fort sumter on april 12 1861 the american civil war began faced with a daunting task of preserving the union lincoln's famous compassion would turn to calculated coldness it would immediately arrest thousands of suspected confederate sympathizers ignoring a supreme court justice's order to let them go he suppressed free media declared martial law and greatly expanded presidential war powers his aggressive attitude rallied northern men in droves within days 75 000 men had volunteered to preserve the union unfortunately for lincoln the north would suffer major losses in the first year of the war mostly due to the pretentiousness and cowardice of one of his generals george mcclone but also because the confederacy had taken lincoln's best soldier robert e lee had been lincoln's first choice to lead the union army but when his home state of virginia seceded from the nation he declined and joined the southern army instead it was now one of the better reasons lincoln couldn't sleep at night on most nights of the war lincoln could be found obsessively waiting for telegraph updates he knew the casualties of every battle what had happened what had gone wrong and he knew that morale in the north was beginning to fade even england was showing signs of support for the confederacy any involvement or recognition by another global power would surely end any remaining support for the war abraham's dream of preserving the union was fading quickly at the worst imaginable time willie lincoln's 11 year old boy died of typhoid fever lincoln's wife mary todd would have a mental breakdown and abraham was inconsolable but if lincoln's life of tragedy had taught him anything it was that even in the darkest of times he could find a way to move forward everything that had happened to him in his life had led him to this and he would not fail the millions of lives that now depend on him [Music] in order for europe to stay out of the conflict abraham would have to make them realize what this american struggle was truly about on september 22nd 1862 abraham lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states shall be then thenceforward and forever free but the executive order would mean nothing unless the north won the war the proclamation would also allow for african americans the very group that had the most to fight for to join the union army nearly 200 000 african-american soldiers would answer the call and take their fate into their own hands union soldiers everywhere now felt more strongly that this was a battle for good versus evil a mission from god to liberate millions from the evil of slavery in the summer of 1863 the confederate army met the union army at a small town 80 miles outside of dc called gettysburg over the next three days 50 thousand men would lose their lives and what is still the deadliest day in us history in a short speech dedicated to the men who lost their lives that day lincoln would begin with his now famous words four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure the world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here robert e lee would formally surrender to the union on april 9 1865 and the civil war would come to an end after the deaths of nearly one million americans [Music] lincoln who had aged decades during the course of the war was finally free from the misery and unimaginable pressure of the last four years a few days later on april 14th lincoln was said to have been the happiest his wife had ever seen him mary and lincoln would take a carriage ride through washington where he was seen smiling and waving we must both be more cheerful in the future he would say to his wife that night they would attend a comedy together at ford theater during one of its many roars of laughter a shot suddenly rang out john wilkes booth an actor and confederate sympathizer shot abraham lincoln directly in the back of the head by the time they reached a doctor there was nothing that could be done at 7 22 a.m on april 15 1865 abraham lincoln died just before his death lincoln made sure that the fight for the union the deaths of so many men and his emancipation proclamation would not be in vain the 13th amendment abolished slavery and indentured servitude in the united states of america the freedom of millions of men women and children from the cruelty and hellish reality of slavery had finally arrived lincoln is one of the most celebrated men in modern history every tragedy every failure every struggle he went through taught him the compassion and fortitude he would need to eventually lead his nation out of its darkest time the great emancipator has become a moral compass for the american people and to me is a symbol of what a truly great man is so what did abraham lincoln really look like this is our first time covering a subject who has been photographed but lincoln's life is just too fascinating for us to ignore my goal with this section will be to talk about how lincoln's contemporaries described him and then of course reveal some recreations and animations that look more photorealistic to really bring him back to life lincoln seemed an incredibly hard man to truly capture lincoln's secretary john nicolai writes lincoln's features were the despair of every artist who undertook his portrait they put into their pictures the large rugged features and strong prominent lines they made measurements to obtain exact proportions but the picture remained hard and cold the picture was to the man as the grain of sand to the mountain as the dead to the living there are many pictures of lincoln there is no portrait of him author walt whitman agreed saying none caught the deep though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face there's something else there a painter from another time or generation is needed quotes about lincoln's appearance all agree he was a tall thin man slightly awkward with an intellectual face he also was described as having a sadness about him which is no surprise given the many tragedies that he suffered it seems he still managed to be very kind and his eyes were much softer and more emotional than the rest of his face unique in appearance lincoln was also unique in voice and mannerisms he had a very distinct voice and speaking style so much that nearly everyone that listened to him remarked upon it somehow journalist horace white described lincoln as having a thin tenor or rather falsetto voice almost as high-pitched as whistle the new york herald reported that his voice had a frequent tendency to dwindle into a shrill and unpleasant sound lincoln was said to have spoken slowly pausing between words and phrases letting his words really sink in and despite the shrillness of his voice his words still resonate with us even today so let's take a look at some recreations and motion of abraham lincoln now [Music] to [Music] thank you all so much for watching it was such a pleasure talking history with you all today please check out our etsy store for prints and bookmarks of your favorite subjects including lincoln and we'll see you all for the next video you

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Published: Fri Jul 15 2022