Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-11-2016
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Department 2
History
Abstract
“If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong,” Abraham Lincoln said in 1864. “I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.”
Yet there has always been doubt about just how great an emancipator he really was. Why did he wait for two years into his presidency to issue his Emancipation Proclamation? And why didn’t that Proclamation free all the 3.9 million African-Americans then held in bondage? [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Guelzo, Allen C. "Great Emancipator was Radical of His Day: Lincoln Opposed Economic Injustice." The San Diego Union-Tribune (February 11, 2016).
Required Publisher's Statement
Original version is available from the San Diego Union-Tribune.