abe lincoln
Good old Abe, that's what has been drilled into our heads since we were little children. We were taught that there was a giant man who is called " The Great Emancipator," but that's what they would like for us to believe. Recently a packet of speeches that were handed out to my group and I and we read them over. In them contained some very startling news. From what I read I came to believe that good 'ol honest Abe was nothing of the sort. We shouldn't recognize a person who puts down another race. In some passages it seems that Lincoln is somewhat a white supremacist but he is greatly against slavery at all times. This is what confuses many, how could such a great and powerful man be a white supremacist? Well Abe once invited some of the most
------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. " This pushes my theory farther in my direction. But he did act at a moment in history- and in a way that significantly changed the destiny of the black man in America. In short, Lincoln may not have been everything his admirers over the years have credited him with being- nor was he everything his detractors have charged. The only credit I'll give Lincoln will be that he actually went through with freeing the slaves. A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. In closing I would yet again say thank you for freeing slaves but maybe the American public should know all the facts before declaring someone a hero. Whether this feeling accords with justice and sound judgment, is not the sole question, if indeed, it is any part of it. And proving this is when Lincoln said himself, in a debate held in Peoria, Illinois, that ". What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially, our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this; if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not. powerful black civil rights leaders in the nation to the white house for lunch, he then said to them "I think your race suffers very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. Anyone could tell that the only reason that he freed the slaves was do to political pressure; he simply wanted to keep his job.
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