![]() And he said that Lincoln freed the slaves. I was - the Uber driver, I was asking about - I mentioned the series and what I do and asked him what he knew about Lincoln. Directors Barak Goodman and Jacqueline Olive say they want their documentary to lift up the voices of African Americans who guided the president along a path to freedom. But there are also the countless names and faces of formerly enslaved people never mentioned, never depicted in history books, who guided him. Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass made Lincoln understand the brutality of slavery and the humanity of the enslaved. ![]() ![]() And we can do better, beginning with the recognition that emancipation began with the emancipated.įADEL: The series, set against the backdrop of the Civil War, shows how that fight for emancipation was much larger than one lionized man. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: The phrase the Great Emancipator - it's not a phrase Lincoln asked to be applied to himself. He wanted to be the great unifier, the person that brought the country back together again. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: He did not start his presidency to be the Great Emancipator. (SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "LINCOLN'S DILEMMA") A new documentary series called "Lincoln's Dilemma" challenges that idea by presenting a nuanced portrait of a man, a president, full of contradictions. We've known Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator, the man who abolished chattel slavery.
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