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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation adds moral purpose to a bloody war and 200,000 black recruits to Union ranks.

Lincoln: American Mastermind : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com

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  • No kidding! Lincoln, probably one of the most politically brilliant presidents the United States has ever had.

  • Lincoln disliked slavery from the beginning and wanted it banned, but was willing to accept it in the south as a way to preserve the union. He wanted to isolate and make the institution untenable by preventing its spread into the territories. He knew that limiting it's growth would eventually turn majority public opinion against it. His ultimate plan was to ban it, not by federal action, but by public opinion.

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  • Political BS! Lincoln's "Proclamation" was just that, it didn't free anyone- it just said it did. The Confederate States simply ignored anything from the US. In the states and occupied U.S. territory in which he actually could free the enslaved people- he chose NOT to.

  • @CHAS142 Lincoln only cared for soldiers and great minds not the slave in general!!

  • @KayBeeEee1983 Truth.

  • @Imperiused As brilliant as he was politically, he was equally inept militarily.

  • The only reason he freed the slaves from the south was because the South was making all the money and the north could not survive without the slaves. The south didnt want to release the slaves so the north went to war with the south to free the slaves into northern slavery which we are currently in.

  • ill explain the strategy for all you brainless fools...enslave the south to a tyrannical union, tell everyone its to free the black man

  • The emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in the succeeded states. It didn't free them on boarder states. He freed the slaves to use them as pawns. He was a racist man.

  • @CHAS1422 no he actually didn't have an opinion about slavery at first... WRONG.

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