Great Emancipator

Freed the enslaved

Great Emancipator is a title for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth U.S. president, referring to his role in ending slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the Thirteenth Amendment.

The epithet appears in historical writing and formal contexts: Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, remains one of America's most revered presidents.

Abraham LincolnCivil War era leader
AbolitionismMovement to end slavery
LincolnMidwestern state capital
Thirteenth AmendmentConstitutional ban on bondage
Sojourner TruthAbolitionist and suffragist orator

Frederick Douglass · Harriet Tubman · John Brown · slave states · house divided · Civil War · Battle of Gettysburg · Lincoln Memorial · four score · Reconstruction Era · Underground Railroad · Gettysburg Address · Ford's Theatre · Booker T. Washington · Liberty Bell · Statue of Liberty · Brown v. Board of Education · Ulysses S. Grant

Opposites

liberation vs. enslavement

Great Emancipatorslaveholder

Owner of enslaved persons

slave trader · Jefferson Davis · John C. Calhoun · slave catcher · oppressor

heroic liberator vs. tyrant/oppressor

Great Emancipatoroppressor

One who dominates cruelly

tyrant · despot · dictator · enslaver · subjugator

Family

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