Abraham Lincoln Great Emancipator Analysis

“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half 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.”. ~Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is one of the most well known presidents in the history of the United States. He has obtained nicknames such as “Honest Abe” and “The Ancient One” for his wisdom and honestness. He drafted the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave him one of his most famous nicknames: “The Great Emancipator.” He is known to be the president that freed the slaves with the proclamation, but when in all reality he did not do so. …show more content…
Constitution. This amendment was “authored and pressured into existence not by Lincoln but by the great emancipators nobody knows.” These great emancipators were abolitionists and congressional leaders who created the pressure that in a way forced Lincoln into his glory of releasing the amendment. Even Lincoln himself said shortly before his death that “he never would have done it, if he had not been compelled by necessity to do it, to maintain the Union.” “What saved these slaves was neither Lincoln nor the Proclamation but the Union Army, the Thirteenth Amendment, and three empowering and liberating provisions of the emancipating Thirty-seventh Congress.” The Thirteenth Amendment officially, and permanently, freed the slaves, as the Emancipation Proclamation did not come close to freedom.
The Emancipation Proclamation was not all negatives. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation did not free the slaves, it did change the character of the war itself. The proclamation as a whole transformed the character of the war, as “the war for the Union became a war against slavery,”instead of a war of “national patriotism”. This is a positive of the Emancipation Proclamation, as the war was not focused on the United State’s patriotism, but on slavery. Slavery was finally being recognized as an issue of the Union, so the proclamation was in order to somewhat preserve the union of the

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