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
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. 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. I think I would not hold one in slavery, at any rate; yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce upon. And proving this is when Lincoln said himself, in a debate held in Peoria, Illinois, that ". Anyone could tell that the only reason that he freed the slaves was do to political pressure; he simply wanted to keep his job. 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. I still don't see how Abe Lincoln was such a great man. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. The only credit I'll give Lincoln will be that he actually went through with freeing the slaves. But he did act at a moment in history- and in a way that significantly changed the destiny of the black man in America.
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