I mean that seriously. Freeing the slaves was barely an accomplishment for a man who went on record as saying he believed that blacks ought to be stay in their 'rightful place' in the bondage of whites, and was appealing to the victors of a war upon which his legacy was dependent. If it were not for the fact that the Civil War broke out the way it did when it did and ended the way it did, how would we really rate Lincoln today? Would we still attempt to make all his previous political failures the greatest story of personal triumph or would we call them what they are, and start finally recognizing why they occurred? Thoughts on the matter please one way or the other, but first and foremost, what made him great if ya don't mind answering that.
What made Abraham Lincoln a good president, and why?computer protection
Abraham Lincoln, it's true, would have preferred to keep the slaves, BUT in order to keep the union together he went to war. Lincoln's ''emancipation proclamation'' never actually freed any slaves per say. He simply and unfortunately, put it in affect to justify the horrors of a deadly civil war that shook the very backbone of this nation. Prior to these war, we were many states or mini-countries, now we are ONE country. A perfect example of this was Lee, he was pro-emancipation and anti-secession BUT could not fight against his home country, Virginia.
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