The Great Emancipator Analysis

President Abraham Lincoln thought of slavery as an evil and inhumane act. In the 1850’s, he stated that slavery was “an unqualified evil to the negro, the white man, and the State” (History.com 2009). Although he initially never planned to interfere with slavery in the states where it existed when he first took presidency, the course of the war convinced him that abolition was the best decision militarily and morally. If it were not for Lincoln, slavery would likely have continued to exist for decades, possibly even longer. Therefore, President Abraham Lincoln deserves the title of “The Great Emancipator. President Abraham Lincoln enacted the Emancipation proclamation on the first day of 1863 in the middle of the Civil War. According to an article from a Civil War era newspaper called The Alleghanian, Lincoln stated that “all persons held as a slave within a state, or designated part of a state, the
Around the 32:15-33:00 mark in the film, there is a conversation between many people including representatives and the amendments manager. In this scene, those skeptical about the radical support of the amendment believe he is using the threat of the amendment to frighten the south into an immediate surrender, but believe that although the previously seceded states will have rejoined the union, they would reject the amendment one by one, ultimately deeming the president's actions as a failure. A second example includes the scene during the debate of the passing of the 13th amendment in the house of representatives, the first representative speaking states that it would be an “unnatural law” and that “congress must never declare equal those whom God created unequal.” The representatives that show strong opposition to the proposed amendment are convinced that negroes are unequal to whites and that the freeing of slaves or allowing further rights to blacks would be