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And so he understood what colonization meant for Black people who had built a home in this country and who had roots in America and what that meant for the future of Black citizenship. And if it wasn't for folks like Frederick Douglass, who, by the way, when Lincoln came into the presidency, was one of the most famous men in America - and Frederick Douglass had just been recently out of slavery himself a few years earlier. And that journey, that moral journey, is at the heart of our series. There were plenty of examples of backsliding, equivocation, uncertainty around the future of African Americans in the United States. And I think it's one of those things that really complicates our views of Lincoln and makes you scratch your head and makes you perhaps pierce the veil of who this man was and understand him more clearly.
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And therefore, the best solution was to colonize, to ship free African Americans from the United States to a country of their own somewhere - let's say, in Africa or in Central America. He hated slavery, hated what it did to human beings, but he thought that perhaps Black and white people couldn't get along together in the United States as free people. We forget that in all the sort of hero worship we do around him. But he also - there are moments where, for example, he talks about colonization, if you could get into what that is and what he ultimately was doing in the middle of this war. I mean, Lincoln did not come to this great moral decision on his own.
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It was their insistence on joining and fighting in the Union cause that really moved the country.įADEL: One thing that really stuck with me with this series that maybe I didn't fully understand myself before was this incredible moral journey. So we have to remember that it wasn't just enslaved people leaving the plantations and coming north. And their example moved Lincoln, personally, towards an appreciation of the humanity of Black people, of the need for complete emancipation. And so during that period of time, there was a critical need for soldiers, for people to fight, and the only people clamoring to fight were African Americans, enslaved - formerly enslaved people. And so what that meant was is that there was this large movement towards actively engaging in their own freedom.īARAK GOODMAN: And I would just add that as the war went on, Lincoln was not only fighting the South, he was fighting Northern public opinion, who were getting increasingly fatigued with the whole thing. Their very lives depended on emancipation, on ending the institution of slavery. There were so many points in history and so much effort by enslaved people for their own freedom. 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")
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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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