Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20210215:06:14:00
>> as lincoln gets older, his father grows more intolerant of his quest for education. >> lincoln's father needed money. so what did he do? he rented his son out to neighbors. in those days, your labor was the property of your father until you were 21. any money you made had to go to the father. and that was the law of the land and custom. >> he was, in his own mind, a slave to his father. >> so unconsciously i think lincoln identified with the slaves, identified his father with the slaveholders, and that led him to, early on, hate and loathe and despise slavery. >> listen, i'm sure he was pis...