“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.¨ -Abraham Lincoln. This is an ironic quote from Lincoln. When he said this he himself had proven you could fool people some of the time. He could not fool us. Abraham Lincoln tried to fool us by making us think that he actually tried to free slaves by using the Emancipation Proclamation to further increase his popularity.In the text 5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln,Slavery And Emancipation it says ¨Lincoln presented more clearly than ever his moral,legal and economic opposition to slavery¨This Great Emancipator” isn't very great. Abraham Lincoln was a great president, but he doesn't deserve the name the “Great Emancipator” Abraham …show more content…
A little racist that seems. To colonize that many people in one country. A continent, a race isn't made of just one country, it's made of distinct and diverse races and people. They aren't all the same. Plus Africa is made of a wide range of countries and different ethnicities that combine and make a whole. Was there no way for African Americans to live peacefully with Whites that they had to be sent to Africa? Thus another reason of why he doesn't deserve the name “The Great Emancipator” Regardless of anything, Abraham Lincoln was a great President there's no denying that. Reason being,he kept the Union together. His purposes for doing so weren't to free the four million enslaved African Americans. His morals were the one’s to be praised. Also pointing out that he didn't believe that African Americans deserved the same rights as Whites. Also the Emancipation was a military strategy. Thus concluding that he was a good President but he shouldn't be referred to as “The Great