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Abraham Lincoln should be regarded as the Great Emancipator. This is because of his immense contribution towards ending slavery in the United States. And the contrary opinion of some section of historians that Abraham Lincoln did not advocate for freedom of slaves in the US is baseless and therefore should be ignored. One would clearly see from Lincoln’s 1858 senatorial discussion with Stephen Douglas that Abraham Lincoln was a man against slavery in the US. The image of former President Abraham Lincoln that is put onscreen in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln”, is that of a staunch opponent of slavery.
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Before the Tuskegee Airmen, not a single African American had been a United States military pilot. The Jim Crow laws, a series of racist laws that enforced the “separate but equal” handling of African Americans, were applied as excuse for avoiding previous efforts by African American army men to become pilots. African Americans worked bravely and with excellence in all theater of World War II, while slowly advocating for their own civil rights from “the world’s biggest democracy.” Although the United States Armed Forces were officially segregated until 1948, WWII laid the framework for post-war integration of the military. In 1941 lesser than 5,000 African Americans were working in the military and only twelve African Americans had attained the position of officers. By 1945, more than 1.2 million African Americans would be working in uniform on the Home Front, in Europe, and the Pacific (including hundreds of African American women in the Women’s auxiliaries).
The Tuskegee Airmen gained a number of achievements during World War II. The 332nd Fighter Group was rewarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for their work on March 24, 1945.
Moton Field is named for Tuskegee University's second President, Dr. Robert R. Moton who worked with distinction from 1915-1935. The Airmen were deployed at the time of presidential administration of Dr. Frederick Douglas Patterson (1935-1953).
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Debunking Lincoln, the 'Great Emancipator'
“Speak to some historians that ‘Lincoln freed the slaves’ and one can literally notice the smoke come out of their ears,” relates a story about abolitionists on CNN.
The image of former President Abraham Lincoln that is put onscreen in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln”, which leads the Oscar completion this weekend with 12 nominations, is that of a staunch opponent of slavery.
He’s always called the “Great Emancipator,” but does the fact that he was the president when the Emancipation Proclamation becomes the Thirteenth amendment earn him that title?
“There’s this mentality that good old Lincoln and a few others fought for freedom for black people. The real story is that black people and people like [Frederick] Douglass snatched their freedom away,” Erica Armstrong Dunbar, a historian, told CNN. Dunbar is shown in a PBS American Experience film referred to as “The Abolitionists” that narrates the story of five abolitionist leaders who arguably played a major part than Lincoln to stop slavery.
“It was not Lincoln who made the Thirteenth amendment, it was the abolitionist movement,” Eric Foner, a historian and author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, told CNN. “It was only in the centre of 1864 that Lincoln changes his intention and decides he’s supporting this amendment.”
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The amendment was adopted in the Senate on April 8, 1864, but it wasn’t until January 31, 1865 that enough Democrats in the House voted for it to go sail through. Then by December 18, 1865 the needed three-quarters of states had verified the amendment, making sure that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall be practiced within the United States.”
According to CNN, historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. once called Lincoln a “recovering racist” who applied the N-word and enjoyed black minstrel shows.
One could view Lincoln’s 1858 senatorial discussion with Stephen Douglas to try and comprehend his opinions on slavery:
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not nor ever have been a proponent of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of making them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white persons; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference among the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they are not ablet so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other individual, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this event I do not perceive that because the white people are to have the superior position the Negro should be assumed everything.”
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“No historian would fail to believe that Lincoln was a man of his times,” Dunbar told CNN. “He was a racist, and did truly believe that blacks could stay in America after emancipation.”
What else doesn’t the average American know about our 16th president? Slavery is the actual conversation that results, but many Americans don’t know more concerning the Dakota-U.S. War of 1862, let alone the decisions Lincoln made at the end of it.
Mid-1862 in Minnesota was hard for the Dakota people. Many white settlers were moving there, ignoring treaties and crops were failing. The Dakota people had been maintained to a small reservation on the Minnesota River—and they lacked food and desperate. The killing of five settlers by four Dakota men resulted in the conflict that led to the deaths of about 800 settlers and 150 Dakota.
After the war, 400 Dakota men were convicted to death. Lincoln commuted that death sentence for all except 38 of them. That is still the biggest mass execution in U.S. history. The state continues to reconcile and heal.
Aside from slavery and the aftermath of the Dakota-U.S. War of 1862, Lincoln also played a role for the propaganda behind Thanksgiving.
“Yeah, it was made up. It was Abraham Lincoln who adopted the theme of Pilgrims and Indians eating happily together. He was attempting to restore things down during the Civil War when people were torn apart. It was like a nice unity story,” Ramona Peters, the Mashpee
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Wampanoag Tribe’s Tribal Historic Preservation Officer told Indian Country Today Media Network in a story concerning the first Thanksgiving. “Yes, it was public relations. It’s kind of genius, in a way, to get individuals to sit down and take dinner together. Families were separated during the Civil War.”