Abraham Lincoln, The Great Emancipator

Abraham Lincoln, “The Great Emancipator”
When you ask someone who Abraham Lincoln was they right away can help you with an answer. They most often tell you he was the sixteenth president or the more importantly answer, “He was the president who helped free the slaves.” Those both are correct but the reason why were here talking about this great man is because of all the things he did that led to his accolade “The Great Emancipator”. Abraham Lincoln was a president who did many things during his time in officer. Things such as help the civil war, carry out important documents and most importantly freed the slaves. I can now see why this topic has riddled and has been such a controversial topic. Many believe he does not deserve it but I’m not …show more content…
The first one was the “First Confiscation Act (August 6,1861). This act was in meant to free slaves that were employed in the war against the Union. A year after on July 17, came the “Second Confiscation Act”. This was just a huge sigh of relief for slaves. Imagine being a slave to a horrific racist man; you can only imagine the inhumane things you would of been put through. This act gave confiscation of such property to these kinds of people and declared the emancipation to their slaves. This act for slaves was amazing, but more importantly it was a a act to give the president the authority put people of color on the battlefront. Lincoln used many strategies, one appearing to use Negroes as soldiers in hopes to cut the Civil war …show more content…
On September 22 of 1862, was when the Preliminary Emancipation was induced. It was not in effect till January 1,1863. Lincoln then went on to say “-all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then in, thenceforward, and forever, free;”. Lincoln shows uttermost sense for the abolition of slavery. With the freeing of slaves you can see the happiness of people in the north; North being the primarily free part of the county while the south was against this push for emancipation. With emancipation on the way you can see where things would take a toll for. A huge rise of racism would be one of the factors. Just because slaves were free did not mean they were treated with respect. Racist attitudes rose as well as ways to keep African-American people as slaves. Slavery was legal in most states especially in the south, which was the region the posed the biggest threat. Without slave workers who would run their production. The slave owners livelihood depended on people of color. The trouble it brought also brought good, it evidently helped these people figured out innovative ways to speed up