Was Anna Ella Carroll against slavery?

As to her own beliefs, Carroll vehemently opposed slavery. Prior to

the war she had freed the slaves given her.But initially Carroll

lobbied Lincoln against emancipation. To her such a dictate would

"convert every Southern man into an enemy. . . ." Unionists would

view such laws as changing the rationale of the war from being that

of preservation of the Union to abolition and subjugation. She

wrote Lincoln, regarding the Second Confiscation Act: . . . .for

with the dread of emancipation and, the apprehension of

insurrections from arming the slaves, it [suppression of the

rebellion] will require a million of men, Mr. President, added to

the numbers we have now in the field, instead of the 300,000, for

which you have called. This is best explained in the book Great

Necessities, The Life, Tinmes and Writtings of Anna Ella Carroll by

C. Kay Larson.