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Lincolns Journey to Emancipation
Title: Lincolns Journey to Emancipation
Category: History
Details: Words: 1482 | Pages: 6.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Lincolns Journey to Emancipation
Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation
He comes to us in the mists of legend as a kind of homespun Socrates, brimming with
prarie wit and folk wisdom. There is a counterlegend of Lincoln, one shared ironically
enough by many white Southerners and certain black Americans of our time. Neither of
these views, of course, reveals much about the man who really lived--legend and political
interpretations seldom do.
As a man, Lincoln was complex, many-sided, …showed first 75 words of 1482 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1482 total…slavery lest he be branded an abolitionist, opposed to Negro political rights lest his
political career be jeopardized, convinced that only the future could remove slavery in
America. But perhaps it was Lincoln himself who summed up his journey to the
emancipation - his own as well as that of the slaves. “Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape
history...The fiery trail through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to
the latest generation.”
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