Summary Of Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator

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America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, better known as “The Great Emancipator” actually was not what everyone brought him to be. An emancipator is someone who frees someone from a particular bondage, such as a slave. Lincoln on the other hand was but a mere opposite. Posing as a the “star” of the abolition of slaves, all he truly did was sign an act to start the horribly long and painfully slow termination of slaves. What should be recognized by a group effort, is now categorized by one person. Lincoln’s main point in his term of presidency was to preserve the Union. In the “Hesitant Emancipator” by H. W. Brands it states,” If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves
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