Which US President was given the nickname ‘The Great Emancipator’?
Forced into Glory Forced into Glory Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (2000) is a book by Lerone Bennett, Jr., an African American scholar and historian, and executive editor of "Ebony Magazine" for decades. It criticizes President Abraham Lincoln and claims that his reputation as the "Great Emancipator" during the American Civil War is undeserved. In his introduction, Bennett wrote: The "basic idea of the book is simple: Everything you think you know about Lincoln and race is wrong. Every schoolchild, for example, knows the story of 'the great emancipator' who freed Negroes with a stroke of the pen out of the
The Emancipator in 1932. The Emancipator The Emancipator was an American newspaper founded in 1819 by Elihu Embree, the son of a Quaker minister, as the "Manumission Intelligencier", and was an abolitionist newspaper in Jonesborough, Tennessee. It was published from April 1820 to October 1820, when publication ceased due to Embree's illness, and then sold to Benjamin Lundy in 1821, when it became "The Genius of Universal Emancipation". The editor was Theodore Dwight Weld. "The Emancipator" was devoted to the abolition of slavery, in this, it was the first newspaper in the United States "The Emancipator" was reprinted by B. H. Murphy