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 …show more content…
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