Barrack Obama, the Illnois Senator wrote: "I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator," Obama said. "As a law professor and civil rights lawyer and as an African-American, I am fully aware of his limited views on race. Anyone who actually reads the Emancipation Proclamation knows it was more a military document than a clarion call for justice."
I completely agree anyone who reads the document knows that nowhere in the document does it mention freeing all the slaves, just the ones from the states in rebellion.
For honest Abe to be portrayed as the great emancipator is crap. To imply that he is the main reason for the end of slavery is to spit in the face of the thousands of white and black people who dedicated their lives to fighting Slavery.
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