Lincoln did free the slaves.

Rating: 6/10 (30 November 2015)

The movie Lincoln accurately portrays the end of slavery. Lincoln did and wouldn't give up on passing the 13th amendment. In doing this he teared apart his family, mostly his relationship with his wife. Abraham Lincoln's negative view on slavery is one of the central issues in history. Lincoln often expressed opposition to slavery in public and private. This is shown in the movie as he is alone with his wife expressing the negativity of slavery and him out and about making speeches about slavery. Initially, he wanted to bring about the extinction of slavery by stopping its further expansion into U.S. territory, and by proposing compensated emancipation in his early presidency. Lincoln stood by the Republican Party in 1860, which stated that slavery should not be allowed to expand into any more territories. In the 1850s, Lincoln did not consider himself an abolitionist, but was attacked as one in his presidency. He did not call for the immediate end of slavery everywhere in the U.S. until the proposed 13th Amendment which became part of his 1864 election. During the American Civil War, Lincoln used the war powers as a president to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which stated that all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free. At first the Proclamation could only be enforced to free those slaves who were already on the Union side. However, millions more were freed as more areas of the South came under Union control. Lincoln pursued various plans to colonize free blacks outside the United States. Lincoln the movie is very accurate to what happened. Lincoln's people did employ the equivalent of today's political lobbyists to try and persuade reluctant Democrats to support the amendment to ban slavery. In doing this they gathered enough votes to pass the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. so therefore Lincoln did end slavery and that was all shown in the movie, so Lincoln the movie accurately portrays the end of slavery.