'Those who want to remove the edifice feel that the image of a slave on bended knee, the very picture of humble gratitude, is demeaning,' writes ToddBrewster, saying Lincoln's statue misleads him and Black history.
), it is more threat than act, one which would have required only that the rebel states put down their arms, rejoin the Union and adopt a gradual plan to abolish slavery, with no mandated timetable.to Congress, Lincoln finally sets a date for a compensated end to slavery in the rebel states, that date, 1900, is 38 years off and he follows on with an offer of federal funding for a plan to ship the newly freed “colored persons” to Haiti or Liberia.
All of this is not to suggest that Lincoln deserves no credit for emancipation. But I believe that he would have bristled at the statue, even at his long-established honorific as “The Great Emancipator.
Perhaps recognizing that to be an insufficient cause to these men of the pulpit, Lincoln added that he had “not decided against a proclamation of liberty to the slaves,” but merely held it “under advisement” — and all of this while his draft of the very proclamation the clergymen desired lay in the president’s desk drawer.
Was God on the side of emancipation? When, on Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln signed the final draft of his proclamation, the nation would find out. “The Great Emancipator”? No. Lincoln would have referenced a favorite line from Hamlet. “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.”
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