Abraham Lincoln Emancipator Analysis

Throughout the years, Abraham Lincoln has been known as Honest Abe, or the Great Emancipator, but others claim that he was a racist. An emancipator is defined as someone who frees someone(s) from restraint, while a racist is defined as a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or who believes that a particular race is superior to another. Lincoln wrote many speeches, documents, and letters that clearly showed the views he held about slavery. Lincoln proves to be an emancipator throughout these papers and speeches he made by clearly opposing slavery. On October 16, 1854, Lincoln gave a speech at Peoria, Illinois where he addressed his views on slavery pertaining to Kansas and Nebraska territory. In the speech, he addressed that if Kansas and Nebraska would allow slavery, it would be the wrong choice. He stated his dislike of slavery by saying, “This declared indifference, but as I must …show more content…
The Emancipation Proclamation was the official announcement that slaves in rebel states as well as runaway slaves, were now free. Lincoln listed which of the rebel states, the proclamation was now going to be enforced in. After the list of the rebel states, Lincoln proclaims, “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said person's.” Lincoln not only gives the slaves their freedom, but states that their new freedom was going to be protected by the military. He made sure that the newly freed slaves were going to have protection from those who were still for slavery. This helped show that Lincoln was an emancipator who had waited for the right moment to free the slaves from their

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