The Abolation Of Abraham Lincoln And The Great Emancipator
First, we come to this idea of the passing of the 13th Amendment. By 1865, Lincoln knew that he must free the slaves in the country for a variety of reasons, one being for political purposes. He pushed for this amendment to become law, and in this he demonstrated why Lincoln deserves his title of Great Emancipator. He was willing to resort to any extreme to convince both the moderate Republicans and Democrats of …show more content…
From the beginning, Lincoln never acknowledged the Confederacy as a legitimate country at war with the Union; he treated them as rebelling states instead. At first he also believed that it was more important to end the war rather than abolish slavery, saying in his 1st Inaugural Address "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery where it exists” (Lincoln), but eventually both political pressure and his morals changed his mind. Now some may argue that this disqualifies Lincoln from deserving the title of Great Emancipator if he wasn’t going to abolish slavery right from the beginning. However, even though Lincoln wasn’t always the Great Emancipator, he grew into the role and adopted the ideals surrounding it, “sounding the great death knell of slavery”