Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator

Many American think of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator who freed the slaves. He is hailed as the hero of black freedom who supported social equality of the races and who fought the American Civil War to free the slaves? Although Lincoln may have viewed slavery as evil, it is also true that he shared the belief that blacks could not be integrated into white society. The fact is Lincoln was hardly interested or committed to put an end to slavery. I will show you that Lincoln was not a friend of Africans and that the Emancipation
Proclamation stopped short of freeing the slaves.

Many of Lincoln’s critics, especially African-Americans, go so far as to claim that he was no friend of blacks and he did not want to risk a political fallout that would have resulted
According to
Julius Lester, “Blacks have no reason to feel grateful to Abraham Lincoln. How come it took him two whole years to free the slaves? His pen was sitting on his desk the entire time.” Abraham
Lincoln claimed to be anti-slavery but his main concern was not the freeing African, it was to keep the loyalty of the slave states. Many also have questioned the real significance of the
Emancipation Proclamation, arguing that it was merely a piece of propaganda and that it actually did not free the slaves. In his famous letter to Horace Greeley he wrote that “my paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery, If