Be unaware that the 13th Amendment exists, dumbass. He didn't stop with the Emancipation Proclamation. Also be unaware Lincoln actually pushed for the Black vote when he had the power to do so.
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Lincoln stood at the window over the building's main north door, a place where presidents customarily gave speeches. Brooks held a light so Lincoln could read his speech, while young Tad Lincoln grasped the pages as they fluttered to his feet. The speech introduced the complex topic of reconstruction, especially as it related to the state of Louisiana. For the first time in a public setting, Lincoln expressed his support for black suffrage. This statement incensed John Wilkes Booth, a member of the audience, who vowed, "That is the last speech he will make." A white supremacist and Confederate activist, Booth made good on his threat three days later.
The fact that you take his campaign statements as honesty (when he was running for president in a country that was 90% against Black rights), and then turn around and pretend his actual personal statements, actions, and moves in government were all just fake, is wild. Lincoln was racist like virtually every white man of his time, he had only been taught racism and only experience black people in unequal settings. But whether he honestly desired black rights and an end to slavery is not in any doubt.
A look at the president's words and actions during his term shows his true sentiments on slavery and racial equality
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It was never about the morality of slavery. If not EVER freeing slaves would have achieved his political goals he would have let them rot.
You can't seriously believe this bullshyt. When has being pro-Black EVER been a political asset with White America? We're not stupid.
There are copious receipts of Lincoln being against slavery. Even his parents were abolitionists.
Abraham Lincoln Slave treatment A Slave Pen at New Orleans before the Auction Slave Auction House on Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia Seven African-American slaves preparing cotton for a gin in South Carolina. “The first impression of slavery which Abraham…Read more ›
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If Lincoln was all about "saving the union" and nothing else, then why did he push the anti-slavery shyt that CAUSED the South to leave in the first place, dumbass? Why would he co-found the Republican Party as an anti-slavery party, knowing that it could tear the country apart? Why would he write in personal letters going back 20 years before he became president, before he even entered politics, talking to his family members about how much he abhorred slavery? Why would he be so overtly anti-slavery that the South left the union solely because Lincoln got elected, before he'd even taken power or done anything?
Back when Lincoln was running for president (and later running for a 2nd term), only a minority of Americans supported abolishing slavery. So of course he had to downplay his opinions on slavery and his feelings about Black people publicly. No one was going to win the presidency on a Black Power platform in fukking 1859, only a tiny handful of people even believed in Black intellectual equality then, and Lincoln probaby wasn't one of them. But he DID believe in justice, and clearly believed that slavery was wrong, and was willing to do everything to the point of allowing a Civil War rather than allow slavery to spread any further than it already had.
It's ignorant as fukk that you keep taking the political shyt people say when they're talking with the opps and pretend that's their honest beliefs, then taking the personal shyt they say and actually do that costs them politically and pretend those actions were just strategic.
Here's a question for you. If it was all political, then why did he work his fukking ass off to pass the 13th Amendment? The war was already basically won, he didn't need it to preserve the union at all. He could have just allowed the status quo. But he spent the final months of his life by all accounts working his ass off to get every vote, traded in every favor he had available, made a ton of shady backroom deals, solely to force through a permanent, constitutional end to slavery forever which wasn't even a popular position with the people yet. Why would he do that, if he was just being "political", like you think?