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Abraham Lincoln
(redirected from The Great Emancipator)

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Noun1.Abraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United StatesAbraham Lincoln - 16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)


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Enshrining Lincoln as the Great Emancipator obscures a more complicated and less pleasant truth: Lincoln had the same racist tendencies as other whites in those days and cared solely about preserving the Union, not freeing the slaves.
Two prominent ways Lincoln is remembered are as the Great Emancipator and as a rugged frontiersman who was a self-made man, but these perceptions are contested.
” Perhaps the sharpest put-down comes from Edmund Wilson, who deplores the “romantic and sentimental rubbish” written about the Great Emancipator and wonders whether “the cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.
 
 
 
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